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And the quest for the most embiggened company name continues: 1) Google embiggened its name to "Alphabet" (which encompasses anything). 2) Facebook felt j
by rkarH 2y ago
And the quest for the most embiggened company name continues:
1) Google embiggened its name to "Alphabet" (which encompasses anything).
2) Facebook felt jealous and embiggened its name to "Meta" (one layer above
"Alphabet").
3) Musk embiggened Twitter to X, a variable that can stand for anything,
so it can be construed to encompass both "Alphabet" and "Meta".
4) Altman embiggens Worldcoin to World.
"World" is actually quite modest, and reminds one of the IPO of WorldOnline in 2000, which was a flop and predated the stock market crash by a couple of months.
- latexr 2y agoThat’s an interesting observation, but I think your conclusions are wrong. The reasons for those names (apart from rebranding to change people’s perceptions of the companies) are documented. Alphabet makes sense because Google has a ton of services with different names, many of them often represented by the first letter in their name. Meta is for “Metaverse”. Zuckerberg was infamously all in on that idea at the time. X is a name Musk has obsessed with and tried to push for years, at least since the Paypal days, even naming one of his children with the letter. World is trying to hide the direct cryptocurrency affiliation (though the coin still exists) as it pivots.
- anotherhue 2y agoWhy settle for three dimensions? With Oracle you can own time itself.
- Yizahi 2y agoArasaka Corporation is taking notes... :)