Why do companies like BAT, Huawei, and Xiaomi, which you and I are familiar with, have such names?

BAT, BAT is three companies, namely Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent.

The company name "Baidu" comes from the Song Dynasty poem "Looking for him in the crowd thousands of Baidu". (The conference room of Baidu Company is named Qingyu Case, which is the word card of this poem). The idea of ??the "bear paw" icon came from the stimulation of "hunters patrolling bear paws".

The name Alibaba is because when he first founded Alibaba, although there was very little entrepreneurial capital, Jack Ma still positioned the future company as a global company, so the name should be loud and international. . In order to register a good name, Jack Ma thought for a long time. Until one day when he was eating in a restaurant in the United States, he suddenly had a sudden idea and asked the waiter in the restaurant if he knew the name Alibaba. The waiter replied that he knew and told Ma Yun that Alibaba's spell to open the treasure was "Open Sesame". After that, Ma Yun repeatedly asked others around the world. After this test, Ma Yun found that the story of Alibaba was known to people all over the world, and the pronunciation was almost the same regardless of language. "From my grandmother to my son, they all read Alibaba." Just like that, Jack Ma decided to use "Alibaba" as the name of the company.

Ma Huateng named the company Tencent, which is full of profound meaning. On the one hand, Ma Huateng has the word "Teng" in his name, and the company is closely related to him; on the other hand, "Teng" also means taking off and developing. The suffix is ??"Xun", which is more due to the influence of his old club Runxun on Ma Huateng. As for the English name Tencent, it is more based on the famous communications company Lucent. Later, Tencent was listed in Hong Kong. Tencent's English name was called "ten cent" by Hong Kong people. At that time, Tencent was at most an SP (SMS Content Provider) company, and Tencent charged 10 cents for text messages sent by users. One piece costs exactly ten cents, so the name is very appropriate and vivid.

Huawei is the name, Ren Zhengfei said in his own words: "When I first registered the company, I couldn't think of a name. I saw that the slogan 'China has a future' on the wall was very loud, so I used it to name the company."

It sounds like a joke, but it's true. Moreover, Ren Zhengfei later regretted it because the pronunciation of "Huawei" was with a closed accent, which was neither loud nor catchy, and could easily be pronounced as "Hawaii" by foreigners. Therefore, there has always been debate within Huawei about whether to change its name, and it was not until a few years ago that it decided not to change its name.

The name Xiaomi came from, when they were planning it, there was a Zhulu Teahouse in Wudaokou. There was a hall called Xuande Hall. Deba, it’s very Chinese. Later, some people said it didn’t look like the naming method of an Internet company. Let's change the name to "Red Star Shines on China", which is also very Chinese, so let's call it Red Star. After everyone passed it, we went to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, but they said I was sorry, but the Red Star belongs to Erguotou, and they have already registered it. Later, I thought about it and decided to call it millet. Millet is the main food for Chinese people and everyone cannot live without it. When it is mentioned, everyone feels very close to it. So, I finally decided to name it Xiaomi.