The naming of Pudget Sound & Bay Area
Well, I’m chilling here in Capitol Hill at Tea Cafe after attending a Seattle 2.0 Lunch. Currently, my laptop is out of batteries. So, coding is out, taking over Harold’s laptop is in, and the guy next to me needs to take a shower real bad.
Nobody cares, I know.
I promised, so I deliver. Where did the project names of Bay Area and Pudget Sound come from? They came from here:
The short of it is, Mr. Chen left because he couldn’t stand how the Pudget Sound Area wasn’t innovative where all the startups in our area are transactional based, and therefore not cool, msft, amazon, expedia. He argues, the Bay Area has way more interesting and innovative companies like twitter, fb, box.net, meebo. Apparently, it’s only innovative when you aren’t quite sure of the revenue model but its still a cool idea.
I’m not here to argue whether Mr. Andrew Chen is right. Though personally, Seattle startups are up and coming… and are going to kick the Bay’s ass.
Project Bay Area is named this way because by its nature is innovative in the world of real estate. The revenue model is untried, untested. Now don’t misconstrue that, we know exactly how we will make money, but to say someone else has gone before us? No, there’s no one in this space. We’re to prove it. Doing a Bay Area ‘worthy’ project in Seattle.
Project Pudget Sound by its nature is a transactional based idea. You pay for/buy a product/service done and done. There’s nothing nebulous about it.
Except that I seemingly won’t give any details about either project.
Justin, just tell me what the Bay Area and Pudget Sound project are! I say No, my friends! Otherwise, I will have nothing left to tell you.
Next installment, the exact problem of real estate and how Bay Area was conceived.