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yadaeno
on Aug 21, 2021
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Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of exec...
Your vp for payments is named "Bill Ready"? Ive seen this phenomenon enough times to believe it's not a coincidence, but some sort of echo of label theory. See also: Doug Bowser, head of Nintendo america.
trishmapow2
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
mavelikara
on Aug 21, 2021
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Some examples here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
drewp41
on Aug 21, 2021
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Also head of Tesla’s AI and autopilot, Andrej Karpathy. Like car path. It’s crazy
hackily
on Aug 21, 2021
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Another one is Rich Fairbank of Capital One.
nextaccountic
on Aug 21, 2021
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Doug Bowser sounds like Kim Dotcom of Megaupload (except that Dotcom actually changed his name to match his business; he was born Kim Schmitz)
miles7
on Aug 21, 2021
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My favorite is the quantum computing researcher Toby Cubitt.
andrewflnr
on Aug 21, 2021
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I was pretty sure Bowser the character is explicitly named after Bowser the executive, so not exactly a coincidence.
Revenant-15
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Bowser only joined Nintendo in 2015. I'm fairly sure Bowser, the character, has been named Bowser far longer than that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Bowser
zinekeller
on Aug 21, 2021
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You're confusing Kirby (John Kriby,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_(attorney)
) to both Bowsers.
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