Ahh, youthful optimism! While work is obviously useful, the fact is, PG's business model relies on others doing lots and lots of work, very quickly, to get a good return on his capital. In reality, the hardest things to come up with may be the ideas, and he solicits those for free. It's a bit of scam, really. What holds true for some tiny percentage of people engaged in Silly-Valley startuppering is not that which holds true for most of us in most of our lives.