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Hard Fork

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Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.55.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Like the Cybertruck, this podcast is also bulletproof.

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0:00.0

Look, Kevin, in Silicon Valley, we have some really incredible names, just of companies, you know.

0:07.0

That's true.

0:08.0

And I think sometime in the mid-2010s, we actually ran out of names.

0:13.0

You know what I mean?

0:14.0

Right, that's what people just, like, started removing vowels from stuff.

0:17.1

Exactly.

0:18.0

And everything was dot I.O.

0:19.8

And it was dot LY, and it just sort of became kind of unhinged and to me this all reached its

0:26.8

apotheosis.

0:27.8

Oh great word thank you about hearing and apotheosis would be a great name for a company

0:31.8

by the way.

0:33.0

Apotheos S-Y-S.

0:35.0

Yeah.

0:36.0

But a couple years ago, I saw a headline on Techme and they'll never forget and it just said,

0:39.6

Flink has acquired Kaju.

0:41.5

And I thought, excuse me me and these actually weren't even

0:44.6

American companies are European companies but flink had acquired Kaju. That

0:48.2

sense would actually give a caveman an aneurysm. That would kill a small peasant back in the days of Henry the 8th.

0:56.0

Well, you know, once Flink acquired Kaju, I thought literally anything could happen in this world.

1:00.0

Yeah, and so this week I saw that hot on the trail of flink acquiring Kaju, Isaiah has acquired Hoosu.

1:08.0

You sure about that?

1:10.0

And Gazun height. I'm K Rousa Tech Columns for the New York Times.

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