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Yeah. Neither Amazon, Google or eBay were 'toys', they were all built to tackle huge markets right from the get-go. Really bad examples.

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Google began as a PhD research project and their server was housed in a shell of Lego bricks[0][1]. I don't know how it could be any more toylike...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#/media/File:...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google

Errr... playfulness at work doesn’t really provide a connection with the sort of Toy market being proposed here. Just because there were toys literally in googles fun style of work doesn’t mean they’re children literally playing with toys.

I never noticed this, but those original lego bricks are the colors of google's logo today.

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