It's still very difficult for someone working under someone else to work in a direction that there superior is outright opposed to. For example, imagine someone

It's still very difficult for someone working under someone else to work in a direction that there superior is outright opposed to. For example, imagine someone at Facebook wanting to take a pro-privacy stance. They might be able to have some impact, but they're going to be overruled and undermined at every turn, whereas if there were a competitor with a staunchly pro-privacy leader / leadership team then that would be very different.