It could very well be that they didn't pay enough. My hypothesis for why tech pays so well is because success depends very heavily on the quality of the talent,

It could very well be that they didn't pay enough. My hypothesis for why tech pays so well is because success depends very heavily on the quality of the talent, and a few people can be the difference between billions of dollars in lost money vs. a machine that makes billions of dollars in annual recurring income. It's hard to claim that a project failed because its budget was too big.