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I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that l
by catlover76 10mo ago
I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally
Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?
- defen 10mo agoDell, HP, Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, Ford...it's not exactly unheard of to name your company after yourself.
- caseyohara 10mo agoExactly. A huge number of household brands are named after people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_named_after_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_named_after_...
- catlover76 10mo ago[dead]
- cholantesh 10mo agoIIRC, he was on his way out by the time the BSL shenanigans were underway.
- ceocoder 10mo agoFerrari, McLaren, Pagani, Lamborghini, Tata, Honda, Toyota, Wal-Mart, Zuora (named after the two founders), Garmin (also named after the two founders).
- deleted 10mo ago[deleted]
- nylonstrung 10mo agoAutomattic and New Relic if we're looking within software
- Fnoord 10mo agoOr it shows the person stands behind their company, and isn't shy to take the responsibility.
- davidsainez 10mo agoEver heard of Debian or Linux?
- flaviolivolsi 10mo agoLinux was named Freax by Linus, but other people didn't like it and started calling it Linux and it just stuck
- Vinnl 10mo agoAnd Git :)
- mstade 10mo agoI don't know the specifics of naming that particular company, but being the majority stakeholder of two companies myself I can tell you that naming companies is just as hard as naming things in programming. Both of my companies are named after myself, one directly so and the other being a portmanteau of my business partner's and my names. It had very little to do with self aggrandizing and more to do with the tax authorities need a name and time was limited. The names were used mostly as placeholders and then stuck. Branding is hard.
- wpm 10mo agoHashicorp is a good name though it’d be hard to pass up
- osigurdson 10mo agoHe mentioned in an interview Hashicorp was just a corporate entity that he used as a teenager to do some contracting here and there. He and the other founder weren't that keen on using it but the name stuck.
- mixmastamyk 10mo agoCharles Schwab has written (my memory) that putting one's name on the business stakes its reputation there, and such a business is theoretically more trustworthy.