If you don&#x27;t think investing billions of dollars skillfully such that you don&#x27;t lose any of it and earn a risk-adjusted return that&#x27;s better than your peers is valuable then maybe you should try it sometimes.<p>These guys manage money for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who are counting on that money being there for their retirement or families.<p>If a hedge fund manager earns $1 billion, you can be assured that he grew his customers investments by something like $4 billion.<p>For every guy that makes $1 billion, there are a thousand or more that don&#x27;t get anything close to the salary that a medium-salaried employee at a decent startup gets because they LOST their investors money.