I worked in both as well, and I know a lot of those budgets are fluff. See my other comment as well - I'm not saying it should be run by startups or as startups

I worked in both as well, and I know a lot of those budgets are fluff. See my other comment as well - I'm not saying it should be run by startups or as startups - just that the bids themselves are scrutinized by the same pros that run facebook, rabbitmq, mongodb etc, to weed out all the bullshit. Think of it like a paid version of Jury duty for geeks.