I don't think most of this is true... the Go core team is at least 20ish people, and that's just engineers not PMs, Managers, or other support staff. Plus the t

I don't think most of this is true... the Go core team is at least 20ish people, and that's just engineers not PMs, Managers, or other support staff. Plus the tools and kubernetes/gcloud teams. It's also kind of disingenuous to call any team lead by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson "small"... yeah they might not have hundreds of people but they can certainly wield a hell of a lot of influence. Google also spends quite a decent amount promoting Go and donating to OSS that promotes Go. You're not wrong about the comparison to Ericcson/Erlang though, or most of the reasons for Go's success, but you can't discount the Google factor.