{"id":3131132,"date":"2026-06-09T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=3131132"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:57:08","slug":"its-not-faang-anymore-its-mangos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/09\/its-not-faang-anymore-its-mangos\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With SpaceX about to break records<\/a> with an IPO on Friday, Anthropic about to break records <\/a>with its pending IPO, and OpenAI racing to match or best its archrivals<\/a> with its own potentially record-breaking IPO, the tech industry will soon have a new set of public company overlords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should all these IPOs take place as planned, these companies will be replacing the vicious-sounding FAANG<\/a> cabal \u2014 Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google (now Alphabet) \u2014 with the delightfully sweet-sounding (though truly sour and atrocious if consumed unripe) coterie MANGOS: Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, SpaceX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As these companies go, so shall the whole tech industry, or so it’s looking like from the summer of 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new acronym was proposed by developer @krishdotdev<\/a> and @lilscoot<\/a> on X and is now going viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that we say: Farewell to FAANG! Long live the MANGOS!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(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.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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i prefer MANGOS pic.twitter.com\/fNnomeqgL5<\/a><\/p>— scoot (@lilscoot) June 8, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>