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Great company, bad name. Pretty sure the company name was chosen by a non-native English speaker since it's an Israeli company after all. Sort of like Wix... Wix also an Israeli company with an odd sounding name (although better then Wiz).
What's wrong with the name Wiz?
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we don't need to be pessimistic about every other thing.
When it comes to Google it’s not being pessimistic, it’s just being realistic.
I give it 5 years
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What's wrong with the name Wiz?
It makes me think of the 1978 movie "The Wiz" starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Richard Pryor. Despite the big stars, it isn't generally regarded as a very good movie. Maybe updating "The Wizard of Oz" with disco music wasn't a good idea after all.
FYI, Wiz investor and current Wiz board member Gili Raanan, head of Israeli VC Cyberstarts, has been (credibly) accused of paying bribes to major CISOs for buying software from their portfolio companies like Wiz. Calcalist did a deep investigation into it: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1a1jn00hc
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It has vav which gets transliterated as v, u, o, or w. How does the average modern Hebrew speaker pronounce these company names in a sentence? Vix, Vayz, Viz? Is the "w" transliteration an example of Latin to Hebrew transliteration but not vice-versa?
It's pronounced the same as in English. Wiz, Waze, Wix. It's written with "double vav" in Hebrew, not just a single vav which would make it read as Viz.
Great company, bad name. Pretty sure the company name was chosen by a non-native English speaker since it's an Israeli company after all. Sort of like Wix... Wix also an Israeli company with an odd sounding name (although better then Wiz).
What's wrong with the name Wiz?
Getting old is seeing every single successful platform be bought out by one of the big ones.
theres a famous painting about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
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