> Only if you did it at a company like Google where it's being talked about and you've got that large a user base

Google has lots of folks who had access to the similar level of resources and no one but Jeff and Sanjay made it. Large scale engineering is not just about writing some fancy infra code, but a very rigorous project to convince thousands of people to onboard which typically requires them to rewrite significant fraction of their production code, typically referred as "replacing wheels on a running train". You gotta need lots of evidence, credits and visions to make them move.