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Ask HN: How about we rename FAANG to MAMAA?

by binarynate on 3/5/23, 1:25 AM with 11 comments

I still hear people refer to the top tech companies as FAANG, but I think that term is outdated because Netflix is waning in relevance and two of the FAANG companies have changed their names. So, I propose that we switch from saying "FAANG" to "MAMAA" (Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet). I also think this acronym is more fun to say (example: referring to big tech as "big MAMAA") and maybe even a metaphor for how smaller companies are like children beholden to MAMAA's platforms. Anyone with me?

  • by PaulHoule on 3/5/23, 1:36 AM

    The list never made much sense anyway. Facebook and Google are basically the same kind of company. Apple is a premium hardware manufacturer. Amazon is the 21st century Sears and Roebucks (and, moatless, may reach the same destination much faster than Sears did.) Netflix stopped being a tech company when it started making its own content and it's a better comparable w/ Disney or Universal.

  • by binarynate on 3/5/23, 1:28 AM

    5 seconds after I posted this, I Googled it and found that I'm definitely not the first one to think of MAMAA:

    https://fortune.com/2021/10/29/faang-mamaa-jim-cramer-tech-f...

    This just further convinces me that it's time to deprecate FAANG in favor of MAMAA.

  • by armchairhacker on 3/5/23, 5:20 AM

    Just say "Big Tech" (or maybe "Top Tech" or "Top 5" if you specifically want the top 5). Otherwise you're going to have to rename the acronym every 5 years

  • by mindcrime on 3/5/23, 2:46 AM

    I'd favor going with Facebook, Uber, Cisco, Intel, Taligent - aka, FUCIT!

    Granted, Taligent hasn't existed since 1998, but I don't see how that really matters.

  • by thfuran on 3/5/23, 1:26 AM

    I say we stick with Facebook and swap Amazon for Intel.

  • by tamaharbor on 3/5/23, 2:44 AM

    GAMMA? (Alphabet is a silly name, go back to Google).

  • by burna_aws_acct on 3/5/23, 3:07 AM

    Thinking about this too:

    MAGNAT (Meta, Apple, Google, Netflix/NVIDIA, Amazon, Tiktok)

    MAGNAM (Meta, Apple, Google, Netflix/NVIDIA, Amazon, Microsoft), if TikTok is cut...

    MAGNAM-IT (Meta, Apple, Google, Netflix/NVIDIA, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, TikTok), for the boomers' parents and the Southerners.