It's very similar with tech startups. Once you've been around the washing machine loop a couple times you realize just how much of this stuff is arbitrary and luck dependent. Unicorns born upon butterfly's wings. Having a certain background lets you buy more chances at the luck part. It's not fair. It is.
Personally my read on this is we should have some humility about how unpredictable this all is.
Under the boss they would have made more Medal of Honor, and maybe the next MoH's were not billion-dollar products.
Maybe had they gotten equity, we would never have a billion dollar CoD series!