Five hundred gajillion dollars spent so we can end up in the same place except with these five men making all the money instead of those five men. Whee.
Even if OpenAI needs to feed the VC beast, they will always be open source LLMs that can be used freely inside home-made search engines.
Owning a few shares is not the same thing as actually making all the money someone at the top of Google is making.
This is the culture of America in a nutshell. Steve Jobs was a weirdo in that regard and an outlier.