The project party does not get any other profit apart from the fund management fees. All investors have to publicly buy tokens in order to obtain the equity.

With its search monopoly, Google charged more for text-search ... before Alphabet saw any loss of profit. Even a 60% loss of ...

The differences between monopoly and competition go further than just profits, Thiel argues. In a super competitive market where you're not that different from your competitors, you have no choice ...