Justin Sun can afford to make mistakes because he is relatively young, inexperience and loaded. Acquiring a decentralized blockchain is SO different and unfeasible compared to acquiring a public listed company. Smartest people I know pump their crypto gains back into traditional businesses. The crypto gains they make is already enough to last them several lifetimes. Retiring young and doing life changing charity work is so cool. The current Tron business model of focusing on gambling is too destructive for humanity. However, life is a series of choices. Actually, I think Justin Sun could have turned the table around if he was willing to improve on Steemit's wallet to allow direct swap from Steem/SDB to Tron without having to go through exchanges.