Well, if digits are what you think is important, then pursue digits.
I reckon there are more meaningful things.
You might consider the inevitability of the post-market economy, which technology is demonstrably creating. 3D printing, cryptocurrency, social media, AI, nanotechnology. All these things are concatenating to preclude the necessity of capital in producing goods and services.
How important will the enemedia-implanted obsession with personal financial gain be in the fullness of time?
The race is to the finish line. As a result, it is the end conditions that matter in determining the success of the means you undertake while running. I don't think large digits being associated with you will matter at all in this race we're running.
Rather, it is how you treat folks; your ethics, honor, and empathy, that will deliver real value when we reach the foreseeable finish line.
There are golden escalators. There are people worth knowing.
I know which will be more important to me in days to come. Given the state of the world and my place in it, I have always known that I will work for a living until I die. When the universe becomes attainable from one end to the other, and the mechanisms that invest our persons in it resurrect us from death (not a religious faith, but a prediction based on what is valuable to people, who will gain the ability as technology progresses), the privations I endure for the sake of my self-respect will be more than sound investments.
Or, rather, they will be inconsequential in the considerations of what is important in those conditions.
Sure, play to win. Carefully consider what prize you seek; what is worth winning.
Win what is important. Don't seek what prize is dangled by those that would profit from your life's work. Seek the prize of true value: the love and respect of people you care about.
The only prize that will have any meaning is who you are, not what you have.