Ajay Kulkarni
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Some people made fun of us, but like, whatever.
I'm glad you felt that way because I feel like people who knew the company mostly felt that way, which was like, we didn't even change our logo.
Our logo stayed the same.
We just changed the name.
And people were like, yeah, no, they get it.
And by the way, tigers are cool.
Tigers are cool, right?
They're cool to fun.
Yeah, I know.
I mean, it was a team effort, but marketing team drove that.
Kudos to them.
But I think it definitely gives you some thought on like, hey, does the name really matter?
And I think where I'm landing right now is that
The name may not help you, but it can hurt you.
I mean, there are two schools of thought.
One school of thought is you name yourself books.com.
Other school of thought is you name yourself Amazon, which could sell books, right?
And I like the clarity of timescale because it was like, hey, time series.
But in hindsight, it was limiting.
Well, like Tiger, dude, Tiger could be anything.