Ok, yes i get it.

If your biotech business is "barely profitable" that disqualifies you as a biotech businessman.

Especially in comparison to other businessmen who have run zero revenue startups for more than a decade.

LOL, you are probably right. It probably is more challenging to keep a zero revenue business running for a decade, spending hundreds of millions of dollars, than it is to get a business to barely profitable. (Let alone the fact that you don't know the profitability of InCellDx. But probably a safe bet to say that all diagnostic lab testing companies struggle to attain profitability.)

Patterson's business area, diagnostic lab testing, is not exactly a hotbed for capital investment.

It is to Patterson's credit that he can make a business where very few others can.

I guess I am also confused as to how Patterson might be as competent as Elon Musk. PayPal was profitable. SpaceX is profitable. I think even Tesla has turned profitable in recent quarters.

Am I just confused? Are you agreeing with me and I just can't figure it out?