In the last few weeks, we’ve had many great conversations with people about our company. I even had a great time meeting with the founder of a cool company called Presto.com.

It’s been very interesting to hear people say our name, Presdo, for the first time.

In spite of our desire to come up with a name which can be said the same by everybody around the world, using a made-up name like Presdo always runs the risk of unintended consequences.

So I am here to explain the origin of Presdo, and to settle once and for all how it should be pronounced. And have some fun too!

Presdo comes from the word presto. We like that the original word comes from magic tricks, in the same tradition as abracadabra and voila!. We also like that presto comes from music, which means to play the music “very fast”. These are great themes to be associated with, since our product is meant to be quick and provide a bit of magic to our users.

Oh, one more thing. Since Presdo is all about “do”ing things with other people, we don’t mind that the name mentions do too.

So, Presdo sounds like presto. That’s where the name comes from.

Oh, and it has one other meaning too… in another language besides English.

Feel free to tell us your favorite way to say Presdo!

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