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I'm having a hard time getting my head around the name "Wag Labs".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_(company)

Do they have a research laboratory where they come up with patented cutting edge technology for walking dogs, like the Q Division in James Bond movies?

Or do they specialize in walking Labradors?

And I'm not so sure that "Uber for Dogs" is a such good metaphor, because nobody wants their dog sexually assaulted.

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It's pretty normal for companies to add a name like Labs to differentiate the parent company from the main (in this case dog-walking) brand.

It says in the article:

> Wag had planned to use the cash to expand internationally and move beyond dog-walking into related pet services including grooming, boarding, food and veterinary care.

It's mostly just a paperwork/organization thing, not something to be taken literally.

When I worked in commercial real estate shortly before the 08 crash, a moderately large local insurance firm rented out an entire floor of a downtown office building as a PARC labs-like play. The employees seemed to spend most of their time shooting each other with nerf darts. Company was dragged down by the crisis a year later and they all had to get real jobs.

You jest, but you'll see the light once you try out their new cutting edge carbon fiber aerodynamically optimized dog leashes. Shave tenths of a second off your dog walk time. There's racing drivers that would literally KILL for that kind of time saving.

It's "Labs" because they're a "tech" company because they have an app. An app makes you a sophisticated technology laboratory. Right?

Definitely not just a company that uses "gig economy" workers to walk dogs.

I wonder if Wag Lab's advanced sophisticated app supports Andy Quitmeyer's revolutionary disruptive fully open-source "Mark Your Territory" technology, from Georgia Institute of Technology and Digital Naturalism Laboratories, that enables your dog to check into Foursquare by peeing? You could track your dog walking and checking into their favorite places in real time!

https://www.instructables.com/id/Pee-to-Check-In-to-Foursqua...

https://web.archive.org/web/20111130012110/http://www.markyo...

http://andy.dorkfort.com/andy/man/

Is there a whitelabel gig economy platform that someone could use to start their own company? Kind of like a Shopify for the gig economy - you get your own branded website, apps, management platforms etc.

Now guess if Dr. Dre is a PhD or MD.

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