&gt; Personally, we are building a company[1] to have an impact. Profit is part of that, since how large of an impact is correlated with the number of customers we can serve which requires certain fixed costs (e.g. salaries.) Profits also allow a company to weather market fluctuations and be free of the hype-cycles of investors.<p>You don&#x27;t need a company - the same goals can be achieved by a non-profit. The main difference between a non-profit and a company is that the company&#x27;s owners are allowed to pay themselves dividends from the profit. If  you don&#x27;t care about that, you&#x27;d probably be better off with a non-profit.