Thanks for clarifying; I get where you're coming from now. It's really not a bad ideal that you express: that profit should not become the ultimate motive but

Thanks for clarifying; I get where you're coming from now. It's really not a bad ideal that you express: that profit should not become the ultimate motive but something else should be the core driver of the business (a passion for solving the customers' problems, for example). I think that when a company takes on investment money from others then their focus must shift more toward making money; otherwise they would be using the investment money unethically. However, if you bootstrap a business, you have more control over the direction of the company and have a little bit more wiggle room over to what extent profit plays a part in the company's mission.