3 ms·
I have always thought the reason they became alphabet was because of the expectation that they would eventually get broken up and wanted a company for each lett
by internet101010 2y ago
I have always thought the reason they became alphabet was because of the expectation that they would eventually get broken up and wanted a company for each letter.
- mucle6 2y agoI think they already had a company for each letter when they became alphabet
- BurningFrog 2y agoThey were also betting on Alpha!
- inopinatus 2y agocome back 2003, all is forgiven
- johannes1234321 2y agoWasn't that for the founders being able to focus on the moonshots and pay there while making Pichain CEO of Google, so they don't have to deal with that day to day? (Which then was ridiculed relatively short after when they made Pichai CEO of all Alphabet ... or was that just him passing the probation period?
- utopcell 2y agoOff-Topic: I always thought they missed out on a great opportunity to name the umbrella company AlephBet instead of AlphaBet ([1]), perhaps with a tag-line that reads: "stop thinking in constants" (to contrast Googol being equal to 10^100). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number