The real tech titans will always be founders, not the promoted CEOs of companies on their descent. People of all cultures should aspire to create their own new things in the world, not run bureaucracies created by other people. It may be prestigious and make you rich but that's true of many terrible jobs.
He's just saying its more impressive to make a ball from scratch and get it rolling than it is to keep a ball rolling. Extra-ordinarily hard to do either one imo.
I, too, find running bureaucracies to be rather boring, but your last sentence isn't all that stinging: except for the money, there are very few jobs most people would want.
