Where 16 Of The Strangest Company Names Came From

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Google. Yahoo. Yandex. Some of today’s biggest companies are named the strangest things.

Sometimes, it’s not the company’s fault. There’s a running joke that vowels are too expensive in Silicon Valley and founders can’t afford normal-sounding domain names.

Others strive to come up with something a little different. “I wanted a nonsense word because I wanted to build the brand from scratch,” one founder said.

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