And with Airbnb and EBay, the name just becomes a symbol at a certain point and any literal meaning recedes. The fact that "bnb" stands for bed-and-breakfast, f

And with Airbnb and EBay, the name just becomes a symbol at a certain point and any literal meaning recedes. The fact that "bnb" stands for bed-and-breakfast, for example, is something I completely forgot until you mentioned it. Similar to how a floppy disk means "save" even though an entire generation has now grown-up sans optical media. It's just a symbol.