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> Those are kinda important parts. Like, to the point that if they'd homegrown "GVideos" I bet it would have failed.

The YouTube product which is their creator economy that exists today didn't back then. In fact, I'm pretty sure original team would've run out of money soon.

> Which was a WebKit wrapper - explicitly just the browser chrome.

And Docker is "a wrapper" around Linux Cgroups. So? It was a unique product with instant market fit - "fast browser without the UI clutter and with sandbox'ed tabs".



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