My general belief is that you can be a millionaire by acting ethically, but you can’t be a billionaire. Lots of people motivated by money want to be billionaires.
And in this case it worked, PayPal acquired Honey for $4 billion in cash. I can't say I'm surprised to learn that the founder is also very into Web3. Crypto is a grifter magnet.
I know one billionaire. He's third generation to run a investment / hedge fund firm that is super secretive. Can barely find him on google, just a few articles about his dad and granddad. They quietly played the financial system for 7 decades and the fourth son will soon take over, but all he seems to do is travel because their employees do all the work. I've learned there are hundreds of billionaires that play this quiet financial-machine game and do everything in their power to remain anonymous. To the first order they are "ethical" because they follow the law, but when you can write the laws that define the financial system by funding congresspeople to insert obscure legislation that no one but financial experts can comprehend, it is very hard to explain exactly what is unethical in a way that your typical Cletus-like voter can understand (hell, I have no effing clue so I should go easy on Cletus).
You're right though, centimillionaires feel entitled to become billionaires, and billionaires feel entitled to become centibillionaires. However, I have noticed that the decimillionaires I know are aware that they still aren't in the right lane to even think that way and are largely content.
(wow, you're getting downvoted, the little boys on the site sure are a jealous bunch.)
