Skype
We should thank Skype each time we went on video calls with a friend or relative or have been interviewed via video conference. We should still be grateful even though we were not explicitly using Skype because it was the first company to find an effective way to have video calls. Skype changed everything, including their name. It was initially called sky peer-to-peer but decided to stop using the name. They switched to Skyper, but it had already been taken, and not willing to acknowledge defeat, they went with Skype.
Skype
Starbucks
We probably had multiple experiences with the Starbucks barista where they spelled our names wrong on the cup of our coffee. But we also found out that the coffee shop also got its name because of misspelling the name of a book character. The naming process for the brand started with the guidelines of starting with ST. One of the founders was reading Moby Dick and came across the character, Starbuck. Gordon Bowker pitched the name, but there had been an additional s at the end.
Starbucks