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Comment by canterburry | Hacker News Reader

Ironically, if you look at Sysco's stock price during the dotcom days, it's often correlated with Cisco spikes because clueless traders would accidentally buy the food logistics company stock instead of Cisco.

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I was an engineer at Cisco in the 00’s and my FIL, a chef, just assumed I worked for Sysco and would tell people when they’d get deliveries. I can’t remember how it came up, but it went on for more than a decade, well after I’d moved on. Still makes me smile when I see a Sysco truck.

This was also the era of Sisqo's one-hit-wonder "the Thong Song", confusing things even further.

and Benjamin Sisko, too

I guess it's time to start a company called mVidia.

I think the usual move is to buy some barely operating New Jersey deli chain or teabag factory that happens to be publicly listed, then rename it to:

Mvidia.AI BlockChain Deep Technology, Inc.

...and start putting out press releases about how you're planning to 1000x your revenue and uplist to NASDAQ, etc.

Be sure to sell chips and biscuits - but always refer to the biscuits as wafers. Then describe adding toppings to them as wafer-scale integration.

"3d-stacked intelligent layout of secured sticky elements for increased stability and on-demand integration"

Deep cut of "Long Island Iced Tea Corp" -> "Long Blockchain Corp"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp.

I guess just because a lot trades were initiated over phone?

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