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There's no direct connection to New Zealand. The founders visited New Zealand at some point, and brought back a stuffed kiwi toy for their child. When naming th
by bdash 6y ago
There's no direct connection to New Zealand. The founders visited New Zealand at some point, and brought back a stuffed kiwi toy for their child. When naming the company, it crossed their mind and so they went with it[1].
Their offices are in Mountain View. I used to live around the corner from them.
[1]: https://www.kiwico.com/blog/2011/06/09/why-the-name-kiwi-crate/ https://www.kiwico.com/blog/2011/06/09/why-the-name-kiwi-cra...
- divbzero 6y agoYes, I think they’re right along Dana Street.
- zoomablemind 6y agoCoincidentally, the crate/box color is brown-yellow, almost like the kiwi fruit skin. Quite sturdy boxes, handy as toys organizer when on road trip with kids. Feeling bad throwing these boxes to trash, but they will add up. As an idea, maybe they could make use of the surface and print some cut out details which could be eventually assembled into something (a model of some kind). Or the very least put some templates on the website to facilitate the reuse. Kids would learn that the box should be considered a resource too, not just the juicy sweet content inside, so to speak, extending the kiwi-fruit metaphor.