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We like the name too! We picked it after giving up on naming the company (we had chosen "Aperture Security" only to find a week later that it had already been taken) and consulting a "list of plant names" for cool-sounding plants.

We hired a (very smart) Argentine national friend of ours who immediately made us aware of the connotation. We were somewhat unhappy for about 500 milliseconds, and then immediately very very happy.





> We hired a (very smart) Argentine national friend

Any chance we could know who that was? I'm argentinian too and I'm curious.


Max Caceres.




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