Breh got a buyout w/ $3.1 Billion of stock. Granted, that stock is trending lower in a hurry but it's hard to say he wasn't rewarded for his fukkery.
Right now all you need to succeed is to trick rich people into believing in you. Once you tie their money up into your idea, they will keep dumping money into you to keep from being proven wrong, even to the point of buying you out like that just to avoid losing everything.