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It's X, the company that took the brand "Twitter," valued at multiple billion dollars, and changed it to X because its owner thought X was a pretty cool name, a
by CobrastanJorji 1y ago
It's X, the company that took the brand "Twitter," valued at multiple billion dollars, and changed it to X because its owner thought X was a pretty cool name, and did it without telling any of the UI designers in advance.
- Sunspark 1y agoI'm still stunned by that.. definitely a Joker lighting the money on fire scene. So many products, printed packaging, websites, business cards, games, etc. had the Twitter logo and link on them. It was even integrated into iOS at one point. This wasn't the first time either.. he tried it with PayPal as well, but they said no, we aren't doing X as the name for PayPal. The boss can do what they want like all bosses, but this wasn't a decision based on fiduciary value for the shareholders.
- CobrastanJorji 1y agoAnd also SpaceX, of course. And the Tesla model X (as part of a series so he could have the models S, E, and X). And his son X. Well, X Æ A-12, but X for short. I hope that if I ever go crazy, there's someone who loves me that I trust that's around me to tell me when something I thing is cool is actually incredibly stupid.
- hbn 1y agoThe weird thing is the dedicated Grok app is actually quite pretty/fluid