Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 11:23 PM UTC

hihihihi1234 wrote: post #28

deeblering4 wrote: post #24

I say shuffle companies around until it’s BANANA

Brb - starting a company whose name begins with "B"

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

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Post by nostrademons » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 11:31 PM UTC

hihihihi1234 wrote: post #34

ijlx wrote: post #20

Earlier 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?

Note also that the original FANGs (minus Amazon and Microsoft) are all Silicon Valley companies. Particularly when talking about local Silicon Valley issues (employment or housing or recruitment or whatever), it still sometimes makes sense to speak of them without adding in Microsoft and Amazon.

In purely financial/economic terms I'm still partial to MAGA, because Facebook and Netflix are a tier below in revenue, market cap, and diversity of their product portfolio.