I agree. It's not that tech incumbents are less slow these, they are still quite slow, it's that if your only advantage over them is the ability to push out cod

I agree. It's not that tech incumbents are less slow these, they are still quite slow, it's that if your only advantage over them is the ability to push out code, consider that they have armies of average, but good enough developers and WILL outcode you once you've proven your idea is worth money. They also have far more to spend on marketing, litigation, etc. So if all you're doing is the same things Google can do, just slightly faster and under the radar, prepare for a huge onslaught later on. Google got big because they embraced the web early on and put themselves in the position of the anti-Microsoft. Microsoft got big because they embraced software abstractions early on, in the form of compilers, multiplatform office software and later on operating systems, and they were the anti-IBM. IBM got big because... Until we come up with the next big paradigm shift, the incumbents will just keep on copying startups, or buying them up.