Ajay Kulkarni
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I don't know.
And I'm not sure if you've ever seen the movie Mean Girls, but there's a line in there that Mike...
has quoted where he goes, it's like trying to make fetch happen.
Like it's not going to happen.
Like we're trying to make this term stick, which wasn't sticking.
And so we're like, Hey, you know what?
We didn't need a new name because we are Amazon.
We're not books.com.
And, uh, but we're not pivoting.
We're actually changing the name to properly reflect who we'd already become.
Yeah.
And tiger data was like the perfect name for us because we, our mascots always been a tiger and,
Internally, we talk about Tiger Time.
That's our all hands.
We talk about State of the Tiger.
This is my monthly presentation to the company.
New people who join the company are Tiger Cubs.
And...
Yeah, like an internal Tiger mascot.
And so the name Tiger just worked because it was who we already identified with.