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Given recent name changes, MAANG works, but it can be MANGA or MAGNA now. I like "MAGNAM" if you include Microsoft.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Given recent name changes, MAANG works, but it can be MANGA or MAGNA now.
I like "MAGNAM" if you include Microsoft.
- gorgoiler 5y agoAhem, and the G stands for Alphabet? :)
- da39a3ee 5y agoIf F => M then doesn't G => A? Which is good, we don't want to have to go around calling them MAGNA!
- jitl 5y agoEvery one of the Facebook companies is a household name with hundreds of millions of users. The same cannot be said for the Alphabet companies aside from Google.
- adeelk93 5y agoYouTube and Fitbit come to mind
- johanj 5y agoBoth are subsidiaries of Google, not Alphabet.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoChromecast Android ChromeOS I think Oculus is much more similar to Stadia than something else too. Additionally, all of those platforms you mention du the same thing: chat and share pics.
- jitl 5y agoYou listed three Google products. Those are not alphabet companies. No one is trying to say Google is smalltime. Rather the point is, “Meta as an entity is comparable to Google, not Alphabet because it’s Units are Interesting”
- NicoJuicy 5y agoI listed 4 actually, all with their OWN household name with plenty of users. Under the Google umbrella or alphabet is the same. Just like under Facebook or Meta. Nobody cares about the exact legal construction of those products. Plenty of people still say FANG, where it's short for Google and not Alphabet. Nice nitpick, but you obviously mispositioned your initial comment by putting the emphasis on household names and not on the legal structure, which is a strange argument fyi.
- fnord123 5y agoOculus does not have hundreds of million users.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoYou prefer MAAAN? While I'm doing a low-content post, here's a tangential fun fact: the Latin sequence "gn" (as in, say, "magna cum laude") was pronounced with the G nasalized. If magna were rendered in English spelling, it'd be "mangna". (Or, well, "mongna".)
- adeelk93 5y agoI can’t believe there was a time where Microsoft wasn’t considered as big of a tech company as Netflix.
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- reducesuffering 5y agoIt wasn’t about size but about fast appreciating tech stocks. This was pre cloud boom MSFT
- dcolkitt 5y agoExactly. Ten years ago people thought of MSFT more like INTC or IBM than GOOGL or AMZN
- thaumasiotes 5y agoYou shouldn't believe it; there never was such a time.