Startups are a good bet. Look for the more ambitious large ones that are worth over a billion, and still trying to grow 10% every week. You can say "we can't do it" as much as you like, but you have to give a counter proposal to still hit the targets. Often these companies have deep pockets too, so that's fun.
Something like Rocket Internet and their portfolio is a good place to start, or someone in the Alibaba ecosystem if you're not opposed to working with China.
Also the larger ones often pass an intelligence filter, so they're unlikely to push you to unreasonable deadlines and stress levels. But it's still competitive enough and you'll likely find yourself in a team with 10x-ers.
I did work in a startup worth $100M, and it was becoming more and more corporate every day. Might be wrong, but I think a startup worth that much (1B) is way past the point of challenging innovation.
I'm in a $1b one now and there's plenty of challenge, lol. It could be the SE Asian ones are a little different. Because you can't just focus on one country, there's a lot of smaller ones with very different cultures and legal frameworks. So a big company ends up spawning off a new company every 6 months or so and have to figure it out again. It's why companies like Stripe, Uber, Amazon have so much trouble with local competitors wherever they go. And it's why companies need to expand quickly, before a local competitor grows enough to challenge a regional one. We've had situations where a payroll or messaging app might have 90% adoption in one country, but near 5% or so in a neighboring country that speaks the same language and eats the same food.
LATAM and Africa seem to be similar too. Former colonies, so there's a mix of similar ethnic background and yet different work/life/economic/legal cultures. And places where corruption is heavy, where private organizations may pick up the slack from government.
Again Rocket Internet is pretty good at this kind of thing. If the Americans are like colonial Great Britain and the Chinese are like colonial Spain, Rocket Internet is like the Dutch East India Company.
Something like Rocket Internet and their portfolio is a good place to start, or someone in the Alibaba ecosystem if you're not opposed to working with China.
Also the larger ones often pass an intelligence filter, so they're unlikely to push you to unreasonable deadlines and stress levels. But it's still competitive enough and you'll likely find yourself in a team with 10x-ers.