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Comment by robertwt7 | Hacker News Reader

This is quite interesting to see because Jack has plenty of stock in twitter obviously? So it kind of shows that he doesn’t really care about profits, instead he wants to do more interesting thing, what a geek, just like all of us lol. Or the other way to see it is that he felt that twitter can’t be saved and he wants to create a new profitable thing.. who knows about how billionaires think

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Billionaires care deeply about money. For the most part it’s accurate to say it’s the only thing they care about, but it’s certainly the thing they care about most.

If you care more about anything more than money you have so many opportunities to express that preference long before you get to a billion dollars that the existence of the billion dollars pretty much proves that there’s nothing above money on the list.

That doesn't seem correct to me. Using Rivian as an example, at what point did any founders become "billionaires" i.e. their stock/ownership value was at a billion? I'm guessing long before they had a working assembly line.

I think people misunderstand how little a billion dollars can be when it refers to net worth and particularly one's stock ownership.

> So it kind of shows that he doesn’t really care about profits

Even without twitter he's a multi billionaire

If twitter was a protocol, in all likelyhood he would not have become a multi millionaire let alone a millionaire.

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