I know the founder through a lot of light discussion. If lots of for-profit alternatives become serious competition, he'd rather move on to something else than take on VC money. His POV is that he already has more money than he ever wanted. All he wants now is to do fun research.
Exactly. With "you" in the original post I didn't mean the exact actor right now but whoever will be in charge eventually. When good actors leave the stage, you are only left with the bad ones.