They really feel passionate about that. Charles Schwab was passionate about helping people manage their financial lives. You're going to have to shoot first. Unless you have that kind of noble cause, I think it's difficult to summon up the courage to change when you need to change. One last difference, which is the most important, is that gray-haired revolutionaries have learned to bring the ethos of Silicon Valley inside.
Silicon Valley is an open market for ideas, experimental capital and talent.
It's truly a market where the best ideas attract cash and talent and the worst ideas die. Most companies aren't markets, they're hierarchies. They have to learn to remake themselves into places where radical innovation is happening. It might help to keep in mind that somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. You can't dodge the bullet.