As entrepreneurs, we tend to publicly celebrate our successes in financial terms – when we raise a big round of funding, when we hit record sales, when we exit in spectacular fashion. But as entrepreneurs we also privately know, away from the press (and investors!), that financial reward is not our only, or even our most important, motivator. As Daniel Pink puts it in his framework for what gives us “drive,” entrepreneurship, for me at least, has always been about three things: autonomy, mastery and purpose.
