That doesn't mean that they can't profit from smart investments into crypto projects. Behind a decentralized Data-Layer to ensure censorship resistance can be a second somewhat decentralized layer full of utility and then followed by a fast and agile managed & centralized single-purpose venture. That's basically the Richard Heart approach. Not really safe and sound, but can work brilliantly as well.

EDIT: There's the DAO and there's a venture capital provider and there's your own money and crypto. To me, they serve different purposes and none of them needs to be exclusive.