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Cyril Reze
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From the FAANG to the MAANA

"FAANG" is a popular acronym that refers to the stocks of five prominent American technology companies: Meta (formerly known as Facebook), Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet (formerly known as Google).

The term FANG was coined by Bob Lang (of Explosive Options) with commentator Jim Cramer (host of Mad Money on CNBC), in 2013, who praised these companies for being “totally dominant in their markets”.
Read: https://www.cnbc.com/id/100436754
Lang tells the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMEfOg0mowA

Originally, the term "FANG" was used, with Apple (the second “A” in the acronym) added in 2017.


With Meta and Alphabet coming along, time for a new acronym...

##Let's name it MAANA!##

From FAANG to MAANA

Mana in its traditional sense means power, authority, ownership, status, influence...

In Melanesian and Polynesian culture, mana is the spiritual life force energy or healing power that permeates the universe. Anyone or anything can have mana. It is a cultivation or possession of energy and power, rather than being a source of power. It is an intentional force.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana

And māna has some obvious pictorial meaning when speaking about companies that are totally dominant in their markets.

In Māori culture, there are two essential aspects of a person's mana: mana tangata, authority derived from whakapapa (genealogy) and mana huaanga, defined as "authority derived from having a wealth of resources to gift to others to bind them into reciprocal obligations".

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana


Some of you may work for one of those companies.

So?
Do you have maana?


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Michael Easter

is the "FAANG -> MAANA" image licensed for re-use? can we use it if we give you credit and link to this page? just wondering (it is fabulous)

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Cyril Reze

I did the visual, free of use. But i'm not owner of the logos. ;-)

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