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Your vp for payments is named "Bill Ready"? Ive seen this phenomenon enough times to believe it's not a coincidence, but some sort of echo of label theory. See
by yadaeno 5y ago
Your vp for payments is named "Bill Ready"? Ive seen this phenomenon enough times to believe it's not a coincidence, but some sort of echo of label theory. See also: Doug Bowser, head of Nintendo america.
- trishmapow2 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
- drewp41 5y agoAlso head of Tesla’s AI and autopilot, Andrej Karpathy. Like car path. It’s crazy
- mavelikara 5y agoSome examples here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
- nextaccountic 5y agoDoug Bowser sounds like Kim Dotcom of Megaupload (except that Dotcom actually changed his name to match his business; he was born Kim Schmitz)
- hackily 5y agoAnother one is Rich Fairbank of Capital One.
- andrewflnr 5y agoI was pretty sure Bowser the character is explicitly named after Bowser the executive, so not exactly a coincidence.
- Revenant-15 5y agoBowser only joined Nintendo in 2015. I'm fairly sure Bowser, the character, has been named Bowser far longer than that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Bowser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Bowser
- zinekeller 5y agoYou're confusing Kirby (John Kriby, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_(attorney) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_(attorney)) to both Bowsers.
- miles7 5y agoMy favorite is the quantum computing researcher Toby Cubitt.