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redbelltoday at 4:40 PM7 repliesview on HN

Wiz joins Waze & Waymo.. there's something suspicious with the letter W here :)


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omoikanetoday at 6:52 PM

There aren't that many Alphabet acquisitions[1] that start with "W", compared to all the companies that start with "A":

      1 2
      1 6
      1 @
     28 A
     15 B
      8 C
     18 D
      6 E
     10 F
     10 G
      4 H
      9 I
      5 J
      5 K
      8 L
     14 M
      8 N
     10 O
     22 P
      4 Q
     13 R
     27 S
     12 T
      3 U
      5 V
      9 W
      1 Y
      8 Z
Normalizing these counts with respect to English character frequencies that appear in text[2], the top three unexpected company initials appear to be "Q", "J", and "P".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency

0_____0today at 4:58 PM

Wiz and Waze are both Israeli companies. Not that suspicious, I think it probably just sounds better in Hebrew.

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JoshTripletttoday at 4:48 PM

They could put up a page for all three acquisitions, under "www".

xnorswaptoday at 4:44 PM

W = Winners, it's just science ;)

I bet someone has actually studied the effect of leading letters in startup names and funding & acquisitions, I vaguely seem to remember a story about it in the past.

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kpstoday at 5:07 PM

Title should be: Wiz Waz

paxystoday at 6:03 PM

RIP Wave