It seems perfectly reasonable to me to think that pg works with startups because he thinks they'd be better because he works with them.
You know what else would be better if PG worked with it? Potholes in the street. So why doesn't PG work with potholes, or any of the infinity of other things he could be working with, and making better? The obvious answer: because he thinks startups are neat, as opposed to potholes, or big companies.
My disagreement was directed at your use of Occam's Razor (which didn't even make sense), not on whether pg thinks startups are neat. Clearly, he does.
You know what else would be better if PG worked with it? Potholes in the street. So why doesn't PG work with potholes, or any of the infinity of other things he could be working with, and making better? The obvious answer: because he thinks startups are neat, as opposed to potholes, or big companies.