The partners are raising capital for product promotion and plan to release the software in October. It lets people create the kinds of things that would ordinarily take computer programming, but it lets them do it without programming. That's probably shooting high. He came along at a time when there were a lot of huge changes happening, and it was easy to get on the ground floor because there was nobody there to stop him. Willits wants to make enough money as an entrepreneur so that he can afford to do what he really wants to do.
Artificial intelligence is more of an academic field right now, and jobs are lower-paying.
In the end, I wouldn't mind being a college instructor and doing research in that area. Like Scoville, he considers support from the business community valuable. The business people have been good for advice. They got us all together at dinner and somebody came and talked to us on a given subject. They talked about interview techniques once.