That was a different era though. Money was tighter for everyone in the 80's and 90's. If Orca Bay owned the team from the early 2000's into the financial bubble years, they would have got high on the monetary cocaine too. The team was losing money as late as 1999.
John McCaw was part of the consortium that bought the Force India F1 team with Lawrence Stroll. Who has since turned it into Aston Martin.