Adidas The name comes from that of its founder, Adolf (“Adi”) Dassler (“das”). His brother Rudi founded Puma. Adobe John Warnock and Charles Geschke, two entrepreneurs who had worked together at Xerox PARC, launched Adobe in 1982 inside Warnock’s garage, which happened to be located next to Adobe Creek in Los Altos.
This is great. Fun seeing how intentional some of these are—and how utterly random others are.