>“Money doesn’t mean a ton,” Mr. Edelson said during an interview in the lobby of the Four Seasons hotel in San Francisco, wearing a watch whose face was loaded with diamond flecks.
It doesn't mean he's being dishonest. If I was making 7-8 figures a year I'd own some expensive things too. It doesn't mean that money would be my primary driver though.
Whatever it means, the reporter was implying he's full of shit.
Insinuating, not implying. Which is poir journalism.