'Jeff, what does Day 2 look like?' 'Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1.' To be sure, this kind of decline would happen in extreme slow motion. An established company might harvest Day 2 for decades, but the final result would still come.
"Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but learning to start over."
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation.