With SpaceX looking to break records with Friday’s IPO, Anthropic looking to break records with its pending IPO, and OpenAI vying to match or surpass its nemesis with its own potentially record-breaking IPO, the tech world may soon have a new public company champion.
If all these IPOs go as planned, these companies will replace the sinister-sounding FAANG cabal — Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google (now Alphabet) — with the fun-sounding (though truly sour and diabolical if consumed prematurely) fanzine Mangos (Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, SpaceX).
As these companies move forward, so will the entire technology industry. This will be the case from the summer of 2026.
This new acronym was proposed by X developers @krishdotdev and @lilscoot and is now going viral.
Of course, the FAANGs aren’t completely dead, and Amazon and Netflix are still going strong. But streaming services and Amazon’s e-commerce business, if not the cloud, are perhaps less innovative these days than the AI and agent companies that the tech industry is trying to reach.
To that we say: Goodbye FAANG! Long live mango!
(At least, if they prove to be a fertile foundation for a healthy economy powered by the coming era of autonomous AI, and don’t usher in an unpleasant future in which we all end up unemployed and penniless.)
