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That’s an interesting observation, but I think your conclusions are wrong. The reasons for those names (apart from rebranding to change people’s perceptions of the companies) are documented.

Alphabet makes sense because Google has a ton of services with different names, many of them often represented by the first letter in their name.

Meta is for “Metaverse”. Zuckerberg was infamously all in on that idea at the time.

X is a name Musk has obsessed with and tried to push for years, at least since the Paypal days, even naming one of his children with the letter.

World is trying to hide the direct cryptocurrency affiliation (though the coin still exists) as it pivots.






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