RenanGreca t1_iu4u4mb wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:42 PM

This FAANG thing confuses me, why is Netflix considered a tech giant and not Microsoft? Netflix is a much smaller company than the others.

orangehorton t1_iu4zxfd wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:20 PM

FAANG is just an acronym for well performing stocks in the early 2010s. Due to a lot of them being tech companies, people over time just use the phrase to talk about tech companies in general, and not use it for the actual purpose the acronym started as

Jestdrum t1_iu7d65e wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:50 AM

Because it's hard to pronounce FAAMG