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by 7ewis 917 days ago
What meaning do they infer?
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swozey 917 days ago
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?

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edgyquant 917 days ago
Or it could be that they are obviously a front for the alphabet agencies
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swozey 917 days ago
lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"
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thih9 917 days ago
> 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

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swozey 917 days ago
What! Well that deflates my entire theory
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