It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.

<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">With <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/spacex-says-it-may-issue-significant-equity-in-future-transactions/">SpaceX about to break records</a> with an IPO on Friday, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/anthropic-files-to-go-public/">Anthropic about to break records </a>with its pending IPO, and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/following-anthropic-openai-files-confidentially-for-ipo/">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>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Should all these IPOs take place as planned, these companies will be replacing the vicious-sounding <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/FAANG" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">FAANG</a> cabal — Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google (now Alphabet) — with the delightfully sweet-sounding (though truly sour and atrocious if consumed unripe) coterie MANGOS: Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, SpaceX.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As these companies go, so shall the whole tech industry, or so it’s looking like from the summer of 2026. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The new acronym was proposed by developer <a href="https://x.com/krishdotdev" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">@krishdotdev</a> and <a href="https://x.com/lilscoot" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">@lilscoot</a> on X and is now going viral.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To that we say: Farewell to FAANG! Long live the MANGOS!</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(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>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="pt" dir="ltr">i prefer MANGOS <a rel="nofollow" href="https://t.co/fNnomeqgL5">pic.twitter.com/fNnomeqgL5</a></p>— scoot (@lilscoot) <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/lilscoot/status/2063975691222220810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2026</a></blockquote>