Making money and real wealth ain't suck at all. And a startup that makes money ain't suck. It's just that this trend of getting funded first that brings frustrations and clashes. Investors want their money back and multiplicated, you the founders have to work hard just to meet this expectation. I far prefer for instance start anything that will make 500k per year without any VC fundings than take 1 million from VC and have to make a 10 million business from and being in the red for 2 or more years, a lot stressful and frustrating.