Shaan Puri
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You may not be as good as me, but you'll be pretty good.
What names did you present to clients that they turned down because they were fearful of that you think was a big miss?
So I see BlackBerry, Impossible, Sonos, Toro, Febreze, Swiffer.
They all were turned down at first?
BlackBerry is an interesting one.
Is there a good BlackBerry story?
You know how, so like in our internet world, there's like this niche of person.
Sean and I have a bunch of these buddies where they will acquire domain names and sometimes jokingly, but not always jokingly, sometimes they actually do it.
They'll start a company just around a domain name.
Do you have a list of names where you're like,
you should start a company just around this name.
Sean and I had this guy named Eric Ryan on the podcast, and he started Ollie.
Wait, is it Ollie Band-Aids?
Is that what it's called, Sean?
Yeah, Welly Band-Aids and Ollie Gummies.
And then he had three more amazing companies.
Method Soap is one of them.
And he was like, I'll start companies just around what form of the bottle I can get the soap bottle.
Method Soap is a famous bottle.
Are there names where you think are company-worthy companies?