What are we calling what used to be called FAANG these days?

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by sumitviii • 3 years ago

10 30 3 years ago

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I am posting this for several reasons.

1. I don't like the original acronym as it leaves out Microsoft.

2. Google renamed to Alphabet and Facebook renamed to Meta since then.

3. I don't know if N stands for Nvidia or Netflix.

What do we have now? Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Nvidia? Is it MMAAANN? or MAANMAN? What is it?

rossdavidh2• 3 years ago

TBH, people still say "FAANG", and it still works. Many acronyms stop being literal acronyms after a while, and start being just a word.

Although probably more people use "Big Tech" than "FAANG".

cableshaft• 3 years ago

Yeah I still just say FAANG. To me it means whatever the big tech companies are with much higher compensation than what I'm getting.

ericyd• 3 years ago

What's another example of an acronym that has stopped being literal? Some acronyms become words but I can't think of any whose letters are no longer accurate.

SargeDebian• 3 years ago

I guess BRICS:

In August 2023, at the 15th BRICS Summit, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had been invited to join the bloc. Full membership will take effect on 1 January 2024.

shawabawa3• 3 years ago

Not exactly the same but UTC is an interesting one, it's an acronym for "coordinated universal time", but is in the wrong order as a compromise to the French that wanted "temps universel coordoné"

rossdavidh2• 3 years ago

3M (originally Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) is now just a name, which means nothing. Same for KFC (once Kentucky Fried Chicken). It may be more common in company names or other legally-fraught acronyms.

xnx• 3 years ago

Similarly the Big Ten football conference is now 14 teams.

Y_Y• 3 years ago

M'NAMANA

Solves all your issues and comes with a catchy theme tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA&t=2

snapplebobapple• 3 years ago

I prefer naan m'am because it elicits an accurate allegory of someone stuffing us full of carbs making us fat and unhealthy, just like the naan m'am companies are doing dumping software below cost on the market to kill healthier options that don't violate your privacy in pursuit of surveillance capitalism

karaterobot• 3 years ago

I'm hoping we use this as an opportunity to move past the whole idea, because this isn't the last time that list will change. It's a badly named variable. Just say which companies you mean, or say "leading tech companies" or "big tech" if you absolutely have to.

avereveard• 3 years ago

like isn't nasdaq-5 exactly what this is?

malfist• 3 years ago

1. I don't like the original acronym as it leaves out Microsoft.

Microsoft isn't part of FAANG

saliagato• 3 years ago

That’s exactly what he said

mike503• 3 years ago

I think the point is they shouldn't qualify. I don't consider MS to be a "FAANG" - I would agree too. Nothing about the company feels like the energy that the other companies bring. They're playing catch-up and while they're huge by market value and impact they're just riding that legacy and to me not really deserving of being part of the "cool kids club" which to me was where FAANG sprung from.

pacifika• 3 years ago

SNAKES

amadeuspagel• 3 years ago

Netflix was never a significant company and was only added to make the acronym sound scary. It's funny that NVidia became significant, so that the acronym would make sense now were it for the renamings you pointed out.

In general, acronyms are always pointless shibboleths. "Big Tech" is perfectly fine.

generichuman• 3 years ago

facegoomicrappama. See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tQzCqkIQ60

mikhailfranco• 3 years ago

Well, MANAMA is the capital of Bahrain.

So maybe MANNAMA ?

malexw• 3 years ago

I have been using GAMMA, for Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon.

"Gamma" as a word is sciencey, which I like, and swapping out Netflix for Microsoft seems reasonable to me.

cykros2• 3 years ago

Gamma is prone to causing confusion, because Gamma is one of the metrics used to measure options (basically, it's the rate of acceleration of change in a price of an option relative to the change in price in the underlying security).

Khelavaster• 3 years ago

It was MAGA originally: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon!

blastonico• 3 years ago

Big techs.

sys_64738• 3 years ago

It leaves out Oracle too so and an O in there somewhere.

cykros2• 3 years ago

I've been hearing a lot about the "Magnificent Seven" (Apple , Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, Meta Platforms, Alphabet and Amazon). Between now, and when we were talking about FAANG, I did hear some talk about FANMAG to throw Microsoft into the mix.

Of course it'll keep changing with time. We haven't talked much about the Nifty Fifty in awhile, except as a modern day tale of Icarus.

moldach• 3 years ago

FANG+ https://www.ice.com/fangplus

What are we calling what used to be called FAANG these days?

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