The world is run by a group of people, but it isn’t some group that meets in secret.
It’s the head of sales and advertising at every Fortune 500 company.
Whatever they want, they get.
They can force payment companies to drop non-christian companies even if they are legal.
When Proctor and Gamble wrote an email and Vogue changed their racial hiring: https://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/how-brands-and-agencies-responded-racial-injustice-first-month-following-george-floyds-death/2265626
In this case it was a good thing, but it is scary how much power these companies exert.
You can use this to your advantage though.
If you can make a marketers life easier. You can bypass any security and technical audit.
My friend had a 2 person startup that let marketers generate analytics direct from a database with plain english.
They were given direct access to Starbuck’s entire global sales and profit data. Something their technical team would have refused otherwise.
You can also charge way more when you target marketers. They generate sales.
If you can make a developers life easier, you would not have gotten past the first conversation without every security concern being addressed.