He is close or already a billionaire, not sure much more money will be do much heavy-lifting
We don't hear about Tom from MySpace.
All those engineers making 20M a year at Anthropic and OpenAI are going to back down to normal super high comp of 700k a year after their starter grants run out, and yes many will quit but the people who stay aren't moving the needle on their finances that much.
Maybe Noam measures status differently.