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When the term FAANG was coined, those 5 companies were paying engineers around double what they could ask for anywhere else. I believe that's when software engineers started grouping them together. It became a goal for many young engineers to join because of the fantastic salaries/benefits.

Things have changed since then but the point remains, FAANG generally means "large company that pays above market for software developers."

I know how you might make money. You build a game. Maybe its fun and ripe for mods like minecraft. Open source it under GPL. Build a community of hackers/gamers who want to learn and collaborate. Have an awesome collection of mods for your game. Once you build a name for yourself, take donations or release a new game or talk at conferences.

It really seemed like DirectX (and the "X Box" standalone console it spawned)

Did the name "XBox" come from the fact that in ran DirectX? Sort of short for DirectXBox?