But a lot of that would depend upon support structure or company architecture, right? After all, if the idea of starting something new gets you asked to leave

But a lot of that would depend upon support structure or company architecture, right? After all, if the idea of starting something new gets you asked to leave the company, the company itself is probably hostile to new proposals, so it's fundamentally against what I'm talking about. I don't disregard what you're saying- but it's a huge mentality shift, to be able to do things like this. I also think it'd be beneficial to run such an organization in a smaller side-company, similar to what Alphabet does, than merely as a new department inside of a huge monolith like a Microsoft. Otherwise, you risk just this sort of thing, and being able to consistently maintain a culture of creation in something meant to last a century or longer is incredibly difficult.