The founders of Julia do have financial interest though! I think they're part of Julia Foundation. Same people wrote the marketing material I presume.
http://www.thejuliafoundation.org/
I didn't think they were, but now it makes sense why Jeff Bezanson's voice is so soothing.
If anything, I feel that the Julia website and manual focus more on technical computing than they ought to and could stand to spend more time on general computing matters for which the language is also well suited. I’ve been meaning to write a blog post entitled “Julia is a General Purpose Language” for a long time. Which I suspect you would take issue with, but that’s ok.