Read far enough in and you'll find out he's a patent troll. I closed the article at that point. Not interested in articles idolizing patent trolls. Mysterious tech billionaire indeed.
With the term "sweatshop" in the title, it doesn't seem like the intent is to idolize this guy. The guy's banked some serious bucks. Whether he's done that in a savory or unsavory way is left up to the reader to decide.
Also I find it amusing that it's the "patent troll" part that turned out to be repulsive to you, but not the part about paying remote devs much less money than local devs.