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I'm told internally at Reddit there's a group called Reddit X working on the next big thing which recently got disbanded.
https://x.redditinc.com
X by Google, X by Twitter, X by X. Terrible branding on all sides and I am so not interested in any of this bullshit.
WTH, I totally 100% thought this was Musk's new company. There is already a company called X by Alphabet, what a goof.
I do not understand why anyone would think that it's a great idea to do a this major rebranding of an existing company with a well-known brand.
Everybody wants to have the "cool factor" of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System Heck, Musk even copied the logo outright.
Wow - has this guy ever had an original thought. The Twitter landing page looks like something from the mind of a prepubescent boy pumped on “xtreme” products of the early 00s
How long do these “moonshots” have until they are considered failures? It seems like an anti pattern that some huge, futzy organization launches a “moonshot” to explain why they burn money on something without needing a return because it’s a “moonshot.” JFK gave his “to the moon” speech in 1962, targeting 1970 [0]. And the USG did it. So 8 years was the first one. It cost a ton of money and was successful and had mas…
How long do these “moonshots” have until they are considered failures? It seems like an anti pattern that some huge, futzy organization launches a “moonshot” to explain why they burn money on something without needing a return because it’s a “moonshot.” JFK gave his “to the moon” speech in 1962, targeting 1970 [0]. And the USG did it. So 8 years was the first one. It cost a ton of money and was successful and had mas…
> Google launched its X/moonshot org in 2010 [1]. 14 years later, have any “landed?” Waymo, Brain, and Chronicle
Also of note is that the stock ticker symbol "X" is, for whatever reason, US Steel [0]. If Elon ever takes his X Company public, I bet there will be a lot of erroneous buys of US Steel, similar to what happened when Twitter originally went public [1] (an unrelated penny stock with the ticker symbol TWTRQ surged), or when an unrelated company with the ticker symbol ZOOM surged when people started buying Zoom videoconf…
X by Google, X by Twitter, X by X. Terrible branding on all sides and I am so not interested in any of this bullshit.
The history is that around 2010 Google wanted to kick off experimental projects, in part because they were starting to lose top talent to startups. Since they had Google Maps and Google Images and Google Earth and Google Mail etc, they named the new org Google X as a space for the new and undefined projects.