It's such an uninspired prompt. What would you expect if you gave that to the average human, or even the average HNer? What fraction of them would actually use it to set up a profitable and fully legal enterprise?
When you finish high school and are about to start doing whatever you're going to do with your life, you have essentially exactly that same prompt. The rest of the world doesn't tell you what to do and then you do that as well as you can, you have to decide what to do also, and then do it.
The detail was to get money. Yeah ok, so what? The experiment was to be a company not a person, and there is no other definition of success for a company.
Earn, steal, gamble, beg, whore, all on the table. The same is true for a person.
Comparing them to individuals should not be the bar.
Who told you that?