For all the EPA fights that plague larger older companies (and many new ones, too), industrial safety and adherence to regulations is very deeply ingrained in t

For all the EPA fights that plague larger older companies (and many new ones, too), industrial safety and adherence to regulations is very deeply ingrained in their cultures. Heads roll pretty quickly for violations at lower levels. Even higher level executives are often quite responsible about staying within the bounds of laws and regulations (though they are less so in doing layoffs and such). This obviously leads to slower innovation and more red-tape, but I have come to believe that slower innovation is an acceptable price to pay for the rest of the stuff being legit. If you are challenging the old order in old industries, and have to move fast and break (the right) things, do it like Tesla and Space X, not Theranos.