Should all these IPOs take place as planned, these companies will be replacing the vicious-sounding FAANG cabal — Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google (now Alphabet) — with the delightfully sweet-sounding (though truly sour and atrocious if consumed unripe) coterie MANGOS: Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, SpaceX.
As these companies go, so shall the whole tech industry, or so it’s looking like from the summer of 2026.
The new acronym was proposed by developer @krishdotdev and @lilscoot on X and is now going viral.
Of course, FAANG is not exactly dead — Amazon and Netflix remain powerful — but streaming services and Amazon’s e-commerce business, if not its cloud, are perhaps less groundbreaking these days than the AI and agentic companies the tech industry is about to crown.
To that we say: farewell to FAANG! Long live the MANGOS!
(At least if they prove to be a nourishing foundation of a healthy economy powered by an upcoming autonomous AI age, and don’t usher in an unpalatable future where we all wind up jobless and broke.)
i prefer MANGOS pic.twitter.com/fNnomeqgL5
— scoot (@lilscoot) June 8, 2026
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