[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?
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Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?
Any other ideas on the new name?
Author : kbendyk
Score : 24 points
Date : 2021-10-28 21:50 UTC (1 hours ago)
| deeblering4 wrote:
| I say shuffle companies around until it's BANANA
| hihihihi1234 wrote:
| Brb - starting a company whose name begins with "B"
| ASalazarMX wrote:
| [B]oogle
| vgchh wrote:
| MAAMAN
|
| - Microsoft Amazon Alphabet Meta Apple Netflix
| victorbstan wrote:
| NAA(H)MAN
| biscottigelato wrote:
| I have no idea why FAANG is still a thing. Of the trillion
| dollars companies, Meta/FB is no longer one of them. Netflix no
| idea how they even got part of the league.
|
| Should be ATAMA - Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet.
|
| But really, it will be BTS - Bitcoin, Tesla and SpaceX. The $10T
| club.
| tmp_anon_22 wrote:
| 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.
| myowz wrote:
| G already became alphabet, no one cared right?
| akomtu wrote:
| G identifies as alphabet, but masses keep deadnaming it. And if
| corporations are people, G should be able to sue and cancel
| people (all of them).
| endisneigh wrote:
| G is not alphabet. Alphabet is a holding company, of which G is
| a 'bet'
| rossdavidh wrote:
| Or GNAAM, pronounced like 'nam, the way some Americans refer to
| the Vietnam war.
|
| If G -> A (for Alphabet), then it's NAAAM
| nostrademons wrote:
| Or MAAAN, which has more of a ring to it.
| rsj_hn wrote:
| Naw, I doubt "meta" will take off in the public consciousness.
| "Facebook" is already too well known.
| endisneigh wrote:
| it will. they're even changing their ticker from FB
| kbendyk wrote:
| 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...
| etiam wrote:
| Some people started early on this one in the post with the name
| change announcement
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29029385
| eunos wrote:
| Kick out Netflix. MAGA
|
| Tell your Silicon Valley friends that you work at MAGA
| pedalpete wrote:
| 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.
| ALittleLight wrote:
| Why is Facebook "meta" but Google isn't "Alphabet"?
| endisneigh wrote:
| 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.
| usui wrote:
| 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 much mindshare). This kind of industry
| leader at enormous scale results in high compensation for
| individual emoloyees and it becomes convenient to lump these
| companies together because everyone is going for it regardless
| of whether they care about any individual workplace.
|
| Netflix essentially bootstrapped and proved the market for
| streaming. For a really long time, people weren't sold by the
| idea of streaming their shows instead of getting millions of
| commercials on cable TV.
|
| Don't get me wrong, Microsoft is a great company that operates
| at a massive scale, winning many enterprise hearts like
| Microsoft Office (slowly losing relevance), but if I think
| about it harder, I just don't think there's much for Microsoft
| to claim as a leader.
|
| It has the largest gaming and PC markets, but those markets
| don't have the same nearly infinitely scalable potential profit
| that Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, or Google do. They don't
| quite lead hardware, software, or "platforms". Windows is
| pretty good, but really more just a data platform at this point
| and hasn't done much movement compared to macOS. Azure, GitHub,
| LinkedIn--they exist, for sure, but we tend to talk about them
| as separate entities than "Microsoff" a lot of the time.
|
| I'm sure many people can raise counterpoints, but keep in mind
| we're already talking about ambiguous notions of "feeling" how
| a company should be perceived, and why many people would "feel"
| like Microsoft doesn't lump with the rest.
|
| I'm reminded by a quote by Steve Jobs talking about Microsoft's
| "lack of culture" in the products.
|
| https://youtu.be/KSg3fU9XWow
| electroly wrote:
| 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.
| dyeje wrote:
| Mostly because of their compensation I think.
| bin_bash wrote:
| GAMMA--kick out Netflix and put in Microsoft
| nostrademons wrote:
| 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.
| dmak wrote:
| The M in FAANG is already Microsoft?
| ijlx wrote:
| The M is Meta - Microsoft isn't in FAANG
| hihihihi1234 wrote:
| 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?
| rvz wrote:
| G.A.M.M.A.
|
| Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon.
|
| Well this works.
| short12 wrote:
| Or just ignore the name change like people did with the Sears
| tower or miller park
| rektide wrote:
| Or DCA airport, maybe "National" if you insist.
|
| Or perhaps more close to home here: Alphabet.
| Armisael16 wrote:
| DCA and National are more-or-less interchangable. It's Reagan
| that's the own-of-towner one.
| monksy wrote:
| I'm reporting you for false info. The Sears tower's name never
| changed.
| sbierwagen wrote:
| MMAGA. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple.
| sandyarmstrong wrote:
| My favorite take:
| https://twitter.com/jspaleta/status/1453798341347708930
|
| "I work for the MAAAN"
| lukehutch wrote:
| Kind of a silly question when we're not saying FAANA rather than
| FAANG.
| 908B64B197 wrote:
| An ESL speaker once used "FAGMAN".
|
| We chuckled.
| corysama wrote:
| If we go with MAANG, can I pronounce it like "mange"?
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