Entrepreneurship — Running a Marathon vs a Sprint

Mustafa Najoom
5 min readDec 2, 2022

Usain Bolt can run 100 meters in 9.58 seconds. A marathon runner runs 26.2 miles (42,164.81 meters) in an average time of four and a half hours. Entrepreneurs are also the same as runners. Some like the thrill of building hyper-growth companies that have steep upward-sloping graphs for all metrics that need it. Others also look for a positive gradient line but a flatter one with troughs and peaks along…

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