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Back when I last worked in Tech Startups, at the point in my life when I was already a salty old dog of the programming world, Founders were all about wanting to hire "enthusiastic" people, which I found hilarious.
"Enthusiastic" was me at the age of 12 in the swimming pool not really knowing how to swim properly because I hadn't been taught how to properly swim yet, so basically my "swimming" throw water all over the place to move very little, which metaphorically also describes my mode of work as a developer in the first couple of years of my career.
Whilst "motivated" isn't the same thing as "enthusiastic", it's quite often used almost as a synonym by the Tech Bro types in the Startup world when it comes to the kind of employee they want, so that meme made me think of this.