The larger the organization, the more time will be needed just to keep the organization together and running, rather than to make it function and produce.
A startup is doing nothing but figuring out how to run, so more time ought to be spent contributing than demanded of keeping things running, because there’s not much to keep running yet. On the opposite end of the spectrum then, the startup founder who is spending most of their time not contributing has no idea where their time is being spent.
