Swartz was the founder and primary shareholder of multiple businesses and devoted multiple years of his life 2005 2007 to working full time on creating this companies business models acquiring funding and other resources building and marketing their products and then selling his companies This is almost literally the definition of entrepreneurship according to the Wikipedia article What is the ends he was pursuing and how do these ends makes this process not entrepreneurship At the moment I honestly can not see why you would argue that he was not an entrepreneur If you can explain it to me convincingly and or if there is clearly consensus on this I ll happy self revert If this has been discussed before and my revert went against a decided consensus I ll also happily self revert