"Past performance is an indicator of future performance. This is nothing but a couple of 70 year old retiries looking for a hobby to occupy their time"
He wasn't 70 for the last 15 years, he hasn't done anything meaningful in all those years leading to this point.
As far as investors vs inventors, investors would have taken capital gain loss when the grape juice ran out, inventors have hopes and dreams. I understand the frustration of failing but refusing to do so with other peoples recourses, well, we all can come up with our own words to describe that.