Aiming for a buyout doesn't mean you don't also want to improve the world.
Your tone is pretty offensive. It would shock almost no one on this site that someone would like to build their own business without an aim to sell it or that someone would have philanthropic life-goals in general.
Many business owners who are bought out turn to philanthropic pursuits now that they've become fiscally stable.
My tone is aggressive because someone was working on a project, a larger company picks up the same idea, and the first suggestion is to give up completely, and accept to be bought out.
Instead of considering any of the other options, or that the small company could actually compete with the larger company (hint: Google doesn’t operate most of their services outside of the US at all), the only real suggestion is "you’re in for a buy-out".
GP doesn't want to improve the world via philanthropic pursuits - they want to improve it by offering an alternative via something they've built. With that in mind, it seems that the suggestion that a buyout by the competition would be a better way to improve the world via (non-thought-out) philanthropy is itself a somewhat offensive suggestion.
Your tone is pretty offensive. It would shock almost no one on this site that someone would like to build their own business without an aim to sell it or that someone would have philanthropic life-goals in general.
Many business owners who are bought out turn to philanthropic pursuits now that they've become fiscally stable.