At 8 years (1999) python did not have any big investment or even big tech backers. IIRC the first real python success story was dropbox At 8 years there's a m

At 8 years (1999) python did not have any big investment or even big tech backers. IIRC the first real python success story was dropbox At 8 years there's a major JavaScript bundler and Uber using zig.