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Re:Reasons not to become famous by graeme on Sunday February 09, 2020 @03:44PM (#22284186)
Ford motors. It was still a descriptive name.

“Bezos everything store?” Harder to start. Amazon allowed flexibility. Can’t infer from choice.

Re:Reasons not to become famous by bumby on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:12AM (#22288788)
Interesting tangential fact: Ford Motor Company was not Henry Ford's first automotive company. He previously started the (less descriptive) Henry Ford Company (his second automotive venture) which was bought and turned into the Cadillac brand.[1] Cadillac would eventually become General Motors.

Combine that with the split between the Dodge brother investors, and all the Detroit "Big Three" manufacturers can be traced to Henry Ford. [2]

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Re:Reasons not to become famous by airocker on Sunday February 09, 2020 @11:27PM (#22286440)
Bezos Books! Sounds good to me.
Re:Reasons not to become famous by graeme on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:12AM (#22286792)
You’re joking, right?

It’s a great name for a bookstore. But you’d have to change it once it grew. And you’d retain the book brand longer than amazon did.

The Ford motors name worked for generations because Ford stayed in motors.