Why do you need to be a millionaire though? I think working for yourself, on (mostly) your own terms on your own product that you're passionate about is more meaningful than the box you might one day tick next to millionaire.
There's no risk in failure either, you can always go and work for someone else, and personal bankruptcy isn't _THAT_ bad.
I don't think PG is giving anyone false hope that they'll hit the lottery - he's just offering an alternative. And as everyone has said tons of times before, your chances of making a million by starting your own business are orders of magnitude higher than winning the lottery.
It's not that the chances are bigger. Consumers want you to win but lottery companies don't. You can apply more work to enhance the result in consumers' world than in lotteries' world because you will work together with consumers unlike loterry companies.
There's no risk in failure either, you can always go and work for someone else, and personal bankruptcy isn't _THAT_ bad.
I don't think PG is giving anyone false hope that they'll hit the lottery - he's just offering an alternative. And as everyone has said tons of times before, your chances of making a million by starting your own business are orders of magnitude higher than winning the lottery.