Billionaires who didn't get that way by inheriting huge sums and suboptimally managing them tend to have gotten where they are through a variety of skills, usually including extremely good skills at selling people in much more advantaged positions the idea to give up what would naively seem to be the near-term optimal course to take a risk on something that might pay off themselves down the road but which was clearly in the not-yet-billionaire’s interest. And they’ve often kept quite current with those negotiating skills.