It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.
Key takeaways
- 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.
- To that we say: farewell to FAANG!
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
With Space X about to break records with an IPO on Friday, Anthropic about to break records with its pending IPO, and Open AI racing to match or best its archrivals with its own potentially record-breaking IPO, the tech industry will soon have a new set of public company overlords.
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.