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Comment by ignoramous

16 hours ago

You have a point but in Branding, it is accepted that bold (noisy) and distinctive (rather than only descriptive) names are an advantage: Creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adyIaTopO6g&t=610 (Jun 2025).

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hahahaa  14 hours ago

Every startup is named like these though so it is sorta biased.

E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

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