As you age, you come to understand that one good pear beats a basket of rotten ones. You need to gradually let go of things that are merely "good enough," as they only drag down the quality of your life.
It’s essentially a process of continuously abandoning technology. You care less and less about the tech itself and more and more about how benefits are distributed.
Your value lies in packaging a conversation about benefit distribution with professional expertise, presenting it so convincingly across the entire industry and company that everyone listens, treats it as a genuine technical discussion, and ends up obscuring the underlying interests.
Technology (XX everything) serves interests.
If it were a guaranteed profit, it wouldn't normally need to seek outside investment—such opportunities are already snapped up by the insiders' own capital. If it's not guaranteed, say it carries high risk and needs some capital to spread that risk, that's why it's being sold off externally.