If "success" is just a black box for doing what you wanted to do, then CFAR asking for money, getting donations, and using them to teach their curricullum

Wait. The success at extracting from you this specific piece of money (the utility of donating which you ponder), is not yet decided. Furthermore, the prior success at finding actions that produce a lot of money, must have been quite low.

edit: besides, the end goal is wealth creation.