Is it important to include every company’s initial? The purpose is to convey the idea of companies that have extremely good cash flow, and can compensate extremely well with equity due to consistent long term growth.

It’s obvious MS and any other company that compensates similarly is included when stating “FAANG”, but throwing an M or other letter in there is going to make it harder to roll off the tongue.

It was originally a wall street term to refer to a specific set of high growth tech stocks. Microsoft was not high growth.

I remember a scant five or so years ago the term that was used was "Big 4", referring to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and one one of either Twitter, Microsoft, or Apple.

Now Apple is firmly a member of the club, Twitter seems completely rejected, Microsoft sort of a second tier citizen, and Netflix has joined out of left field.

i prefer MANGA for the list of desirable bigcos to work. Don't know anyone who wants to work at FB (that isnt currently there) and its a much better acronym.

FAANGMULTAD is the term (meme) you're looking for.

M - Microsoft

U - Uber

L - Lyft

T - Twitter

A - AirBnB

D - Dropbox

can microsoft compete on pay?

It was wall street

on Blind people take the meme to another level, to be more inclusive

> Including Apple and Netflix but not Microsoft still boggles my mind

You could bikeshed including or excluding particular companies forever. Probably not useful to do.