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Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by seba_dos1 »

kbendyk wrote: post #6
rsj_hn wrote: post #4

Naw, I doubt "meta" will take off in the public consciousness. "Facebook" is already too well known.

You’re absolutely right, as myowz pointed out, it was ignored with G/Alphabet, but it would funnily confusing to say “He works for a MANGA (or MAAAN) company” to someone…

Google did not rebrand itself though, it's still Google. It's the holding company that owns Google (the company) that's called Alphabet. In contrast, Facebook does an actual name change now - there'll be no company named Facebook anymore, just a product.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by warrenm »

pedalpete wrote: post #13

MAGMA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon). I've never understood why Netflix was equated with the bigger companies. It's market cap is $300B the others (excluding Facebook) are all above $1T, and Facebook/Meta has a chance of breaking the $1T in the next year.

Microsoft isn't in Silicon Valley - they're in Seattle

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by mindcrime »

warrenm wrote: post #74
mindcrime wrote: post #71

Anybody else think this renaming will go down in history as right up there with "Inprise"[1]? [1]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2589416/inprise-to-cha...

Man! I had forgotten about the Borland/Inprise/Borland lunacy

Yeah, that was definitely one of the worst re-branding debacles in IT history as far as I can tell.

The FB / Meta thing may be a bit different, but it definitely doesn't jump out to me as "Wow, what a Good Idea!" ya know?

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by loukrazy »

warrenm wrote: post #73
pedalpete wrote: post #13

MAGMA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon). I've never understood why Netflix was equated with the bigger companies. It's market cap is $300B the others (excluding Facebook) are all above $1T, and Facebook/Meta has a chance of breaking the $1T in the next year.

Microsoft isn't in Silicon Valley - they're in Seattle

As is Amazon

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by warrenm »

mindcrime wrote: post #76
warrenm wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man! I had forgotten about the Borland/Inprise/Borland lunacy

Yeah, that was definitely one of the worst re-branding debacles in IT history as far as I can tell. The FB / Meta thing may be a bit different, but it definitely doesn't jump out to me as "Wow, what a Good Idea!" ya know?

Google's [quasi] rebranding to hide what each business unit was doing by becoming subsidiaries of Alphabet is still one of those weird things

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by tmp_anon_22 »

mjirv wrote: post #44
tmp_anon_22 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix has a reputation for providing high up front compensation packages instead of equity and other compensation models. For this reason it gets lumped into the larger technology companies with vastly higher head counts. FANNG is largely a descriptor of compensation levels.

I've always thought that comp at Microsoft is similar to Amazon (i.e. slightly lower than F/Apple/N/G). Am I wrong?

I figured it was something like Facebook|Netflix > Google > Amazon > Microsoft. With them all being in an A- tier of compensation. (Most companies are C - B, A is extremely rare).
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