Profit & Invention

Is the goal to invent things in order to make a profit, or to use profits to invent new things?

In the past with Steve Jobs, the goal was to use money and profits in order to invent new (insanely great) things.

With Kanye, the goal is to use money to invent new things (future clothing/apparel, and his new STEMPLAYER).

Elon Musk— use profits to innovate new great electric cars (TESLA), and also SPACEX, in order to ‘Occupy Mars’.