"The people that start "tech" companies are often soulless and maladapted to society, having hid behind computers to escape their inability to deal with the real world".

Yes. Of course.

You cannot trust anyone to have a rounded mind unless they have actually done more than one thing, broadly speaking.

Having worked at one of these companies, I don't buy for one second, that these companies are not obsessed with financial benefit. You would be an absolute idiot to believe that.