I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.

The line frames Jobs’s early wealth as an accidental byproduct of building something he cared about, not the goal itself. By listing rapidly escalating net-worth milestones, the speaker emphasizes how quickly external measures of “success” can arrive—yet insists they are secondary to intrinsic motivations such as craft, curiosity, and the desire to make great products. The final clause (“I never did it for the money”) functions as a moral claim: that authentic innovation is driven by purpose rather than profit. It also implicitly critiques a purely financial definition of achievement, suggesting that money is an outcome that may follow meaningful work but should not be the compass guiding it.