Some people started early on this one in the post with the name change announcement
Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?
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#32Naw, I doubt "meta" will take off in the public consciousness. "Facebook" is already too well known.
it will. they're even changing their ticker from FB
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#33MAGMA (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.
Welcome to the opinion zone. You mention market caps, but I don't think that is really the reason why certain companies enter the mindshare of people. I think the reason that Netflix became a part of the acronym is because, like its counterparts, all of them are leaders in a big space that others have a hard time competing with, with products that seem innovative (also explains why the giants of FinTech don't have mu…
Honestly I always assumed Netflix was added because "fang" sounds nice and apropos, but if you remove the N then it's a very different word that's not nice at all.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
The M is already Microsoft. I'm partial to calling the Netflix-less tech industry "MAGA", because they're the ones actually making America great again. Also Google is actually Alphabet, so it'd really be like MAMA or something.
The M is Meta - Microsoft isn't in FAANG
Tangential: why not? Microsoft is a huge, enormously influential tech company that everyone has heard of, with a revenue of $160 billion (more than 10x that of Netflix) and nearly 200,000 employees (more than any FAANG except Amazon, if Wikipedia is to be believed.) Why isn't it included in the standard list of prominent tech companies?
Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?
#35MAGMA (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.
Why is Facebook "meta" but Google isn't "Alphabet"?
Google is still a separate company, owned by Alphabet, the holding company. Facebook is changing their name entirely as a company. Facebook will only exist as a product that Meta owns after this.
Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?
#36G already became alphabet, no one cared right?
G is not alphabet. Alphabet is a holding company, of which G is a 'bet'
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#37Replace Netflix with Microsoft then you either have:
GAMMA or MAGMA
or
Meta, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon.
Both seem to work. But I'd go with GAMMA.
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#38Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?
#39MMAGA. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The M is Meta - Microsoft isn't in FAANG
Tangential: why not? Microsoft is a huge, enormously influential tech company that everyone has heard of, with a revenue of $160 billion (more than 10x that of Netflix) and nearly 200,000 employees (more than any FAANG except Amazon, if Wikipedia is to be believed.) Why isn't it included in the standard list of prominent tech companies?
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