He made most of his money off of PayPal, though.

Nobody should ever forget that.

To be fair about it, Retail is not a place where people with tech skills find employment. Aside from one single mom-and-pop store in a city where I no longer reside, I have never run into anything but salespeople at tech stores. It's sad, but it's just the truth. Ask yourself, as a 'tech-savvy' slashdotter, if you could stand the environment and the low pay of working in a Computer Store.