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The paper conceptualizes how social entrepreneurs construct their prosocial motivation through a person-centered approach. The study examines seven social entrepreneurs who actively own and manage their businesses in Sweden. Gioia methodology was adopted to analyze social entrepreneurs' life stories and the interview data with their close relations to understand how they construct prosocial motivation in social entrepreneurship. Based on grounded theory-building and constructive perspectives, this study contributes in a few ways. First, it departs from the subjective viewpoint of social entrepreneurs taking a lived experience approach to their prosocial motivation. Secondly, we elaborate on the relationship between meaning in life, time orientation, and the adopted perspective to wellbeing in social entrepreneurship setting. Showing that finding meaning in life results in both long-term orientation and a more eudaimonic view of own wellbeing, whereas experiencing meaning void contributes to entrepreneurs taking a short-time perspective and focusing more on hedonic wellbeing, the feeling of being happy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]