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Anyone know the origin of the name FlixBus? My completely uninformed wild guess was that when the company was starting, they borrowed the “flix” from Netflix as a shorthand for “tech savvy company” without caring too much about the actual English slang meaning.

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It’s a German company and “flix” is local slang for quick

local to where? there is "fix" and "flink" which both mean quick, so it could be a portmanteau.

Since it's a German company, it might be one of the "fake" English words Germans like to come up with. Another examples: "Handy" for a smartphone or "Beamer" for a video projector. These are the most used names for these appliances.

Flixbus basically destroyed other competitors by driving the prices down to extreme levels. Once their competitors were gone, their raised the prices. Example: Postbus.

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