For some entrepreneurs, money is not the point. I’m not talking about me, to be honest. I’m talking about, well, I’ll call him John.

John has given up a high-powered Washington, DC career. He’d been a high-level Congressional aide. And he just wrapped up a stint as an important government official. He, his wife, and three kids have traded in a house they own in a sought after part of town for, according to his description, a rental home near Los Angeles that nobody would call beautiful.

Some of their friends think John and his wife are insane. They’ve gone insane so they can pursue two dreams. She has been a freelance entertainment writer and wants to try to make it a full-time career. That means being in Hollywood. He’s always wanted to teach, which can happen anywhere. So they’ve moved to Hollywood.

She recently got credentialed for the summer Hollywood press tour — a hard thing to do which means you’ve at least got inside the club. He got a job teaching high school government at a private school.

As they embark on this new stage of life, John and his wife like to joke, “Money is for the weak.” I don’t quite get the joke. But I do get the entrepreneurial spirit that is driving them. Very cool.

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