Large companies have more money, more people, and more distribution. The one thing they cannot easily buy is speed, because their size is what makes them slow.
A small team that ships weekly while a competitor ships quarterly compounds that gap into a lead that is hard to close.
Speed is not recklessness. It is a deliberate bet that learning faster beats planning longer.
Protecting the Advantage
Guard the things that keep you fast: small teams, short meetings, few dependencies.
The day you start moving like the incumbent, you have given away your only edge.