> Profit is money you couldn’t figure out how to spend.

Profit is the money showing your business is sustainable. Ever since the ZIRP era US companies keep haemorrhaging money at a rate that is physically impossible to recoup.

If OpenAI plans to lose 100+ billion dollars per year for half a decade, what profits are you talking about to offset the losses?

> When the company/market matures, you want pure profits because shareholders like money.

Ah yes. Shareholders like money. And not, you know, basic accounting like "we need money to actually pay salaries, pay for equipment and offices etc. without perpetually relying on seeming endless investor money".