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Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)

2025-06-29 · 83 min · 84 entities

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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://azure.microsoft.com/
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  • mentioned penname.co website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://penname.co/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://anthropic.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://ycombinator.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://vercel.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://windsurf.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://anduril.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://sonos.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://paramountplus.com/shows/1923
  • mentioned capcut.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://capcut.com/
  • mentioned azure.microsoft.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://azure.microsoft.com/
  • mentioned lexiconbranding.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://lexiconbranding.com/
  • mentioned swiffer.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://swiffer.com/
  • mentioned impossiblefoods.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://impossiblefoods.com/
  • mentioned viagra.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://viagra.com/
  • mentioned dreamworks.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://dreamworks.com/
  • references penname.co website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://penname.co/
  • references anthropic.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://anthropic.com/
  • references ycombinator.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://ycombinator.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://hardyfishing.com/collections/fly-rods
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://vercel.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://windsurf.com/
  • references anduril.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://anduril.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://sonos.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://paramountplus.com/shows/1923
  • references capcut.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://capcut.com/
  • references azure.microsoft.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://azure.microsoft.com/
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://lexiconbranding.com/
  • references swiffer.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://swiffer.com/
  • references impossiblefoods.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://impossiblefoods.com/
  • references viagra.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://viagra.com/
  • references dreamworks.com website
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://dreamworks.com/

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  • mentioned Yellowstone Season 1 book
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://amazon.com/1883-Season-1/dp/B0B8JTS8QW
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://amazon.com/Thucydides-Melian-Dialogue-Commentary-Vocabulary/dp/0692772367
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://amazon.com/Resilience-Hard-Won-Wisdom-Living-Better/dp/054432398X
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://amazon.com/Thucydides-Melian-Dialogue-Commentary-Vocabulary/dp/0692772367
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://amazon.com/Resilience-Hard-Won-Wisdom-Living-Better/dp/054432398X
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://amazon.com/Resilience-Hard-Won-Wisdom-Living-Better/dp/054432398X
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://amazon.com/Churchill-Walking-Destiny-Andrew-Roberts/dp/1101980990
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://amazon.com/Churchill-Walking-Destiny-Andrew-Roberts/dp/1101980990

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  • mentioned Andrew Grove person
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove
  • mentioned Harry Potter Film Series person
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series
  • mentioned The Call Of The Wild person
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild
  • mentioned Sound Symbolism person
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_symbolism
  • mentioned Chevrolet Corvette person
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette
  • references Andrew Grove person
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove
  • references Harry Potter Film Series person
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series
  • references The Call Of The Wild person
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_symbolism
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette
  • mentioned Lenny Rachitsky person
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    Feed author/publisher: Lenny Rachitsky
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  • mentioned BlackBerry concept
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry
  • mentioned PowerBook concept
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook
  • mentioned Pentium concept
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium
  • mentioned Infoseek concept
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infoseek
  • references BlackBerry concept
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry
  • references PowerBook concept
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium
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    Link in episode "Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infoseek
  • mentioned Business concept
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  • mentioned Entrepreneurship concept
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  • discusses Business concept
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  • mentioned Vercel company
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    CEO of Vercel
  • mentioned StackBlitz company
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  • mentioned Technology company
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  • works at Vercel company
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  • works at StackBlitz company
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Episode description as stored
David Placek is the founder of Lexicon Branding, a company that focuses exclusively on the development of brand names for competitive advantage. Lexicon is behind iconic names such as Sonos, Microsoft’s Azure, Windsurf, Vercel, Impossible Foods, BlackBerry, Intel’s Pentium, Apple’s PowerBook, and Swiffer. Over 40 years, David’s team has named nearly 4,000 brands and companies, employing over 250 linguists and pioneering naming innovation. What you’ll learn: 1. The three-step process that generated names like Windsurf and Vercel 2. How a name can give you the edge that no marketing budget can buy 3. Why you won’t “know it when you see it” 4. Why Microsoft called Azure “a dumb name” before it became their billion-dollar cloud platform 5. Why polarizing opinions are the strongest signal that you’ve found the right name 6. How every letter of the alphabet creates a specific psychological vibration 7. The diamond framework: a 4-step process any founder can use to find their perfect name 8. Why domain names don’t matter anymore in the age of AI — Brought to you by: WorkOS —Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs Stripe —Helping companies of all sizes grow revenue OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Where to find David Placek: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-placek-05a82/ • Website: https://www.lexiconbranding.com — Where to find Lenny: • Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com • X: https://twitter.com/lennysan • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/ — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Introduction to David and Lexicon Branding (04:44) The story of Sonos (09:27) The psychology of naming (11:33) The initial resistance to Microsoft's Azure (14:35) The importance of a great brand name (18:11) The three steps of naming: create, invent, implement (28:23) Qualities of great brand name creators (31:24) How long the naming process takes (32:12) The Windsurf case study (36:10) Naming in the AI era (39:37) When to change your name (43:10) The role of linguists (45:54) The power of letters in branding (48:15) The Vercel case study (50:12) The implementation phase (52:52) Client management and market success (55:16) The diamond exercise (01:04:23) Suspending judgment (01:07:31) Polarization and boldness (01:11:01) Domain names (01:12:48) Final thoughts and lightning round — Referenced: • PowerBook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook • Pentium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium • BlackBerry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry • Swiffer: https://www.swiffer.com/ • Impossible Burger: https://impossiblefoods.com/ • Vercel: https://vercel.com/ • Windsurf: https://windsurf.com/ • CapCut: https://www.capcut.com/ • Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/ • Sonos: https://www.sonos.com/ • John MacFarlane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-macfarlane-08a8aa20/ • Harry Potter : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series) • The Call of the Wild : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild • Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js ): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/everyones-an-engineer-now-guillermo-rauch • Sound symbolism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_symbolism • Anduril: https://www.anduril.com/ • Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/ • Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder and CEO of StackBlitz): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-bolt-eric-simons • The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-rise-of-cursor-michael-truell • Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-untold-story-of-w