With SpaceX about to break records with an IPO on Friday, Anthropic about to break records with its pending IPO, and OpenAI racing to match or best its archrivals with its personal probably record-breaking IPO, the tech business will quickly have a brand new set of public firm overlords.
Ought to all these IPOs happen as deliberate, these corporations can be changing the vicious-sounding FAANG cabal — Fb (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google (now Alphabet) — with the delightfully sweet-sounding (although actually bitter and atrocious if consumed unripe) coterie MANGOS: Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, SpaceX.
As these corporations go, so shall the entire tech business, or so it’s trying like from the summer season of 2026.
The brand new acronym was proposed by developer @krishdotdev and @lilscoot on X and is now going viral.
After all, FAANG shouldn’t be precisely lifeless — Amazon and Netflix stay highly effective — however streaming companies and Amazon’s e-commerce enterprise, if not its cloud, are maybe much less groundbreaking nowadays than the AI and agentic corporations the tech business is about to crown.
To that we are saying: Farewell to FAANG! Lengthy reside the MANGOS!
(A minimum of in the event that they show to be a nourishing basis of a wholesome economic system powered by an upcoming autonomous AI age, and don’t usher in an unpalatable future the place all of us wind up jobless and broke.)
