Startup Jargon
What does MVP stand for in the startup world?
Minimum Viable Product
This eastside warehouse retailer was founded by Jim Sinegal. It's current CEO started as a fork lift driver. They may or may not be associated with brainrot.
Costco
What is the tallest mountain in Washington state?
Mount Rainier
What year did Disney acquire Pixar Animation Studios?
2006
This company started as a podcast platform called Odeo before pivoting to become a microblogging site.
What term describes a startup valued at over $1 billion?
Unicorn
What Seattle cybersecurity company, founded in 2011, went public in 2019 and is now valued at over $50 billion?
CrowdStrike
What Washington town was the primary filming location for the Twilight movie series?
Forks
Disney paid $4 billion to acquire this sci-fi franchise from George Lucas in 2012.
Star Wars (or Lucasfilm)
YouTube originally launched as a video dating site before pivoting to general video sharing.
True (or YouTube)
What do you call the rate at which a company spends its venture capital before generating positive cash flow?
Burn rate
What Seattle unicorn, founded by former Microsoft executives, provides business intelligence and analytics software acquired by Salesforce for $15.7 billion?
Tableau
What is the longest river in Washington state?
Columbia River
What streaming service did Disney launch in 2019 to compete with Netflix?
Disney+
This gaming communication platform started as a game called Fates Forever before pivoting to voice chat.
Discord
What's the term for when a startup significantly changes its business model or product direction?
Pivot
This Seattle coffee giant went public in 1992 and now operates over 30,000 stores worldwide.
Starbucks
What island in Puget Sound is accessible only by ferry and is known for its artist community and famous Vineyards?
Bainbridge Island
Disney acquired 21st Century Fox for $71.3 billion in 2019, gaining control of this popular adult animated series.
The Simpsons
What communication powerhouse was originally an internal communication tool for a failed gaming company called Glitch before becoming a standalone product.
Slack
What does "CAC" stand for, a metric measuring the cost to acquire a new customer?
Customer Acquisition Cost
What Seattle-based game developer created both the Halo franchise and Destiny?
Bungie
What Washington national park, established in 1938, contains over 60 glaciers and temperate rainforests?
North Cascades National Park
Who is the current CEO of Disney, who returned to the role in 2022 after Bob Chapek's departure?
Bob Iger
This company started as "Burbn," a location-based check-in app, before pivoting to focus solely on photo sharing.