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My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

That doesn't mean they have to be original like a Pentium, something that's coined.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

And that begins that sort of you're on a slippery slope if you want something comfortable or popular because things that are original are, you know, humans like comfort for sure.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

Second thing is you really do have to know something about linguistics and how the brain processes information.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

That's this processing fluency thing so that it's,

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

There's something familiar and yet something surprising.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

And that's our creative strategy here is to really develop names that are surprisingly familiar.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

Because our brains are a little lazy, if you will.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

This is gonna be easy for me to process, but oh, there's something interesting here.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

That's where you get that attention.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

So those are those two things.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

Then I mentioned this before, you have to be unexpected.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

An unexpected word can be something different for one company versus another.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

Azure for Microsoft that typically has very descriptive and not so interesting words in their portfolio, Azure got people's attention.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

If we had given that to Google,

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

It wouldn't have been that attention-getting because people would expect that from them.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

Okay, our process is driven really by two things.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

It's a combination thing.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

We call it, or I call it, creative curiosity.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

So the first thing we would do for you is we'd say, okay, well, let's look at the category.

My First Million
We named a billion dollar “startup” with the guy that named BlackBerry, Febreeze and Swiffer.

What's out there?