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lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"

• thih9 3y ago
  > In a 2018 talk, Schmidt disclosed that the original inspiration for the name came from the location of the then Google Hamburg office's street address: ABC-Straße. From Wikipedia about alphabet Inc
  • swozey 3y ago
    What! Well that deflates my entire theory