You're not going to be a L4 in Data Processing and start a Stadia project on your own, no. It would also be ridiculous for you to even try. But you can spin u

You're not going to be a L4 in Data Processing and start a Stadia project on your own, no. It would also be ridiculous for you to even try. But you can spin up smaller things, and L7+ can start major projects if they want to risk their career. And that's how most of the non-massive initiatives have worked. Massive initiatives like Stadia, Cloud, Maps, Social, Play, and Gemini are atypical at Google considering the thousands of smaller projects that have launched, maybe tens of thousands considering internal projects. Even most of those project decisions aren't happening at the C level.