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Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
by sleepyshift 6y ago
Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
- luckydata 6y agoA name, a destiny.
- hitekker 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism He has embraced the concept: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamready/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamready/
- cosmodisk 6y agoOr when your name is Rich Ricci and you run a bank...
- crawsome 6y agoNintendo's CEO's last name is Bowser. Our AG is named "Barr" (Pun on a Bar association) Is there a cool collection of these somewhere? These are the only evidence I feel that we're in a simulation and the engineer is fucking with us.
- civil_engineer 6y agoThere's a urologist in Austin, Texas named Richard Chopp.
- pesfandiar 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym#Notable_examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym#Notable_examples
- whalabi 6y agoIncredible.
- Shicholas 6y agoAnd Anthony Weiner, well...
- novok 6y agoThe DHS secretary spokesperson with the entire Portland brouhaha is named Chad Wolf. If that wasn't a meme name I don't know what is.
- gowld 6y agoNot spokesperson. Unconstitutionally appointed "Acting" Secretary of Homeland Security.
- apeescape 6y agoThe most famous weatherman in Finland is Pekka Pouta, which literally means "Pekka Fairweather" https://youtu.be/8sS7-CfPn6Q https://youtu.be/8sS7-CfPn6Q
- c3534l 6y agoI knew a gynecologist named Dr. Hole. To be fair there are at least three ironic specialties he could have gone into.
- Plough_Jogger 6y agoThe COO of Starbucks has the last name Brewer
- coronadisaster 6y agoThe Matrix is real.
- nomadluap 6y agoI believe there was a man named Armond Hammer who was the CEO of the company that owns Arm&Hammer (the baking soda company) at one point.
- glenstein 6y agoI notice that in my home state, the head of more than one auto dealership had the same last name as the brand of car sold by the dealership, for reasons that were coincidences. I wonder if there is some kind of unconscious social bias at work in these cases?
- gowld 6y agoen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
- esrauch 6y agoIf your name matches a brand of a car it might be rational to sell that brand; assuming it's otherwise a completely arbitrary choice, it probably helps name recognition and memory, since some customers will probably mention it as a mildly interesting anecdote to their friends and family.
- atombender 6y agoArmand Hammer wasn't the CEO, just a minority shareholder and board member. He wanted to buy the company because he liked the name and apparently already used an arm and hammer as his personal insignia. (Fun fact: His grandson is Armie Hammer, the actor, who was named after him.)
- emmelaich 6y agoHead of the Sydney Water Board Union was named Sydney Lake.
- cossray 6y agoArsene Wenger, former Arsenal manager
- chaconnewu 6y agoHe used to be an EVP at PayPal :)
- kyrra 6y ago(Googler, opinion is my own). Technically, no. He's head of Commerce, which is different than payments (I'm in payments). You can see from that page, they do things like shopping listings, and the experience around it. Payments (at least at Google) is just a service that teams like that can use. You'll notice that checkout screens for shopping, ads, Youtube, Store, etc... are all very similar. That final payment experience is Payments.
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- bhaskara2 6y agoFood For The Poor President and Chief Executive Officer used to be Robin Mahfood
- robin_reala 6y agoOne of the highest judges in the UK is Lord Judge, who used to be Judge Judge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Judge,_Baron_Judge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Judge,_Baron_Judge