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Project OP Chugs Dong
Project Enlighten (tech)
Project Rhinestone (O&G)
Project Project (Yep, it’s real)
Project Vainglory
I love Project Project. The balls.
Sounds like soemthing Patrick Star would come up with
Project Emerald
Anything Greek-mythology generally sounds dope:
Also, the science-y ones are pretty cool too:
But the tue Elder-God-tier projects are the low-effort Midwest Consumer company buyouts where the bankers figured the founder's HoldCo name was good enough:
Project Mama’s Hot Dumplins is amazing.
The funniest is when LMM firms will send you “PROJECT ZEUS” and it’s a 3 store frozen yogurt restaurant in a single municipality
Heard there used to be one MD who would name the projects as pornstars
Project Rhoades
Project Riley
Project Mack
Project Grey
Project LaCroix
Man I miss Remy
Project Eldrich
Project SVB
A dude on my team just came up with the stupidest name on the corp dev side for a financing. It’s something like Project Amazing.
Our counterparties probably think we are special needs.
Project Gato
Project Cortes
Project Skadi (hi Dota all stars)
Do you even work in IB if you’ve never worked on a Project Eagle?
There have been over 30 of them at my bank. We literally have Project EAGLE_XXX....
Project names are one of three options: Colors, animals, Greek mythology
Don’t forget rocks.
Rocks with colors crossover
Project Lollapalooza
Project Pink Lasers
A few years back we had Project Koala. I thought that was funny because the MD was an expat from Australia.
Project Kangaroo never appeared though.. hmm.
I reviewed a Project Mamba since the company was based in Kobe's hometown. Loved that one.
Project Erling - MF PC deal
Project Incognito & Project Apache my two faves.
Ethical Capital Partners enters
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What’s the approach when you name projects? We usually try to have some sort subtle connection to the company that the people in the group understand directly but outsiders dont. However, given all the “Project Eagle” and “Project Megatron” I’ve come across, I doubt that’s the approach everyone has.
Project Prestige, simple as
Tell me you’re a pre-internship college student without telling me.
After you work on a few deals, “Project Insomnia” or “Project Guantanamo” would be the first ones to come to mind.
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