"There's something very wrong in the world when the people who invent things aren't the main beneficiary of their own inventions" Anyone can be the primary ben

"There's something very wrong in the world when the people who invent things aren't the main beneficiary of their own inventions" Anyone can be the primary beneficiary of their own invention, it they want to pay their own salary, build their own products, hire their own layers, sell their wares etc.. If you want to collect $150K/year while you do R&D for Google, which may produce not that much, while you leverage all of their knowledge, investment, user-base tools etc - well, then you fork over the rights to Google. 'Inventing' something is not just some guy coming up with an idea, and then making that 'invention' worth something is usually harder than inventing it in the first place.