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Mitchell Hashimoto is a real programmer in the old vein. It's lovely to see him succeed. Ghostty is fantastic to use.

There was a devtools blackhole era once where if you got in that business you were just giving things away and never got to reap the rewards. Then there was this era of founders who figured out how to make it sticky and capture value in a Pareto-optimal way.

Love to see it.

>>arjie+(OP)
I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally

Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?

>>catlov+Cr
Dell, HP, Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, Ford...it's not exactly unheard of to name your company after yourself.

>>defen+CZ
Exactly. A huge number of household brands are named after people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_named_after_...

>>catlov+Cr
IIRC, he was on his way out by the time the BSL shenanigans were underway.

>>catlov+Cr
Ferrari, McLaren, Pagani, Lamborghini, Tata, Honda, Toyota, Wal-Mart, Zuora (named after the two founders), Garmin (also named after the two founders).

>>arjie+(OP)
hashicorp made him a billionaire, ghostty is really more of a pet project lol

>>catlov+Cr
Or it shows the person stands behind their company, and isn't shy to take the responsibility.

>>catlov+Cr
Ever heard of Debian or Linux?

>>davids+ph1
Linux was named Freax by Linus, but other people didn't like it and started calling it Linux and it just stuck

>>catlov+Cr
I don't know the specifics of naming that particular company, but being the majority stakeholder of two companies myself I can tell you that naming companies is just as hard as naming things in programming. Both of my companies are named after myself, one directly so and the other being a portmanteau of my business partner's and my names.

It had very little to do with self aggrandizing and more to do with the tax authorities need a name and time was limited. The names were used mostly as placeholders and then stuck. Branding is hard.

>>davids+ph1
And Git :)

>>catlov+Cr
Hashicorp is a good name though it’d be hard to pass up

>>catlov+Cr
He mentioned in an interview Hashicorp was just a corporate entity that he used as a teenager to do some contracting here and there. He and the other founder weren't that keen on using it but the name stuck.

>>catlov+Cr
Charles Schwab has written (my memory) that putting one's name on the business stakes its reputation there, and such a business is theoretically more trustworthy.

>>ceocod+bb1
Automattic and New Relic if we're looking within software