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11k is nothing to a patent troll like a FAANG (MAANG now?) but quite a lot to the kind of SME that - afaik - doesn’t engage in this behavior to the same extent.

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> (MAANG now?) FAANG still has G for Google, not A for Alphabet. In a similar vein, we can (and perhaps should?) simply ignore Facebook's rebranding attempt - names are a social constrict, you don't get to unilaterally decide how others will call you.

>names are a social constrict,

typo as truth.

We can perhaps now just shorten it to "the man". I think at one point it was generally used to refer to exciting tech companies where people got paid really well and had an almost unreasonable standard of employment (meals provided for them etc).

For the most part those companies have grown up and stuff like free coffee and fruit has become the standard across most offices.

If only this were true! People wouldn't be kicked off open source projects.

> MAANG now?

I keep hearing MANGA

If we substitute Netflix for Microsoft (I’m never sure why Netflix was chosen instead), we can have GAMMA which is my personal favorite.

Why not have both? "The GAMMAN companies" has a nice ring to it.

I think it was originally for "Silicon Valley" companies, and Microsoft was up in Seattle.

So's Amazon.

It was "high-growth large-cap tech stocks" at a specific point (where MSFT was flat) - it was a Wall Street thing, not a tech thing.

It is being referred to as MANGA in other places

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