Swartz: Accel was named to be near the alphabet's beginning
Jim Swartz · 20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev · Nov 8, 2021 · at 7:22
Jim Swartz, co-founder of Accel, describes how co-founder Arthur Patterson chose the name Accel from the dictionary when founding the venture firm in 1983.
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“The Accel name, both Arthur and I spent our lives at the tail end of the alphabet. We wanted something at the front end of the alphabet. Going through a dictionary, he came across, it's actually a music term. It's short for accelerando, if you're into music.”
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