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by etempleton 58 days ago
Naming your company off a product that doesn't really exist yet and then ultimately fails is a pretty crazy and stupid thing to do. A bit cart before horse.
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I think they were trying to disassociate themselves from the PR disasters Facebook was facing back then (privacy related IIRC).
Oh, I know, but they could have named themselves anything. They believed in the metaverse, They thought it was the next big thing. The same way Zuckerburg thought voice assistants, and AI will be a thing.