> most industry-leading companies continue to make even more money, more profitably than ever over the following decade.

Because they stop investing in innovation and just coast off squeezing profits out of the innovations made by the founder.

Apple has not produced any innovative product since Jobs launched the iphone (no, the apple watch was not innovative). Microsoft has not innovated any new aggressive "embrace, extend, extinguish" monopolistic business practices since its very effective, sociopath CEO Gates resigned.