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by swozey 926 days ago
Alphabet is such a cringe name for a company no less. Especially with the meaning google infers. I bet they giggled like little kids in the board room that day. We're so cunning and witty! hehe!
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What meaning do they infer?
That they're going to make a ton of stupid company names and it's their company-name umbrella dad-joke used for tax and legal purposes?

We didn't just all get the memo that that's the joke?

Or it could be that they are obviously a front for the alphabet agencies
lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"
> 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

What! Well that deflates my entire theory