Imagine you are running at 2 miles/hr and your competitor is doing 4 miles/hr. How much distance gap increases between two of you as time passes? The answer is secret to virtually all success in most companies which started as startup. In companies where people do 9-5 and competition where people sleep under desk, the gap grows tremendously. Yes, people burn out and they will be discarded and replaced with new blood but that’s how history is made, unfortunately. The 9-5 companies are exactly the target to be swept away by startups.