Back to Carmack - if I were Carmack, had the intelligence and experience Carmack does, along with the money and connections Carmack has - I would simply find somebody not as slimy as Zuckerberg to work on VR related things with, it's as simple as that. I'm sure there are several others who would be happy to fund him if he reached out.
Do you think otherwise?
As is every other fb employee.
From that tech dream perspective, which I assume they both share, the Facebook way of making money while chasing those dreams is just circumstantial details. For both of them. I'd expect those two to get along excellently. One of them is now basically renaming his life's work out of admiration for what the other can do, and the other is probably not infinitely immune to flattery.
Zuckerberg Chan Biohub may satisfy some of your criteria
The problem is, there are only two other companies with the budget, R&D budget to do that. One is apple, who I doubt would let Carmack be free to do what he wants. The other is Microsoft.
I wouldn't write someone off simply for working for someone.
when you least expect it you will be in a meeting about business management crap, it's very hard to keep that at bay.
I don't regret doing my own thing, but sometimes I'd like to work for my company instead of running it.
He never struck me one terribly concerned with ethical dilemmas. More the pragmatic kind that wants to work on cool stuff. But I always listen when Carmack talks because no matter his ethics, I find he has exceptional insight.
Also what is it with this idea of "everyone will throw morals into the trash to work at X", it's simply not true, some people DO indeed posess ideals and the integrity to go with them.
