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 doubtlessly record-breaking IPO, the tech trade will quickly have a brand new set of public firm overlords.
Ought to all these IPOs happen as deliberate, these firms might be changing the vicious-sounding CATCH 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 firms go, so shall the entire tech trade, or so it’s wanting 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 will not be precisely useless — Amazon and Netflix stay highly effective — however streaming providers and Amazon’s e-commerce enterprise, if not its cloud, are maybe much less groundbreaking nowadays than the AI and agentic firms the tech trade is about to crown.
To that we are saying: Farewell to FAANG! Lengthy stay the MANGOS!
(At the very least in the event that they show to be a nourishing basis of a wholesome financial 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.)
