even the creator of bitcoin doesn't receive the slightest profit from his own creations.
This is not true, the CEOs of projects gets to create tokens for themselves during the token sale phase and even allocate a portion of the total supply to the team working on the project.
Bitcoin did not have an ICO, but during the early days it was pretty easy and cheap to mine out bitcoins, and Satoshi is surely sitting in a huge pile of Bitcoin right now.