Tech IndustryDec 1, 2019
Microsoftcool-kid

To the Microsoft people who are excited about Jim Cramer talking about including Microsoft in FAANG

This literally is meaningless for you as an employee. Blind completely misses the point of what FAANG is. FAANG is just a list of companies with stocks that perform well and are good investments (the acronym was also coined and popularized by Jim Cramer) It doesn't have anything to do with having good tc, or being a good place to work. I see some people saying Microsoft can't be FAANG because it doesn't pay well enough, and someone else said it can't be a faang because faang's are all customer products while Microsoft is too commercial...(?) None of this has anything to do with being a FAANG company, it's just a list of Jim Cramer's favorite tech stocks. Definition I copy pasted: "FAANG is an acronym for the market's five most popular and best-performing tech stocks, namely Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet's Google"

Microsoft iamletired Dec 1, 2019

I don't think anybody is excited about this, or has even heard about it.

Microsoft cool-kid OP Dec 1, 2019

Welp... I've seen a lot of people talking about it, sooooo There's definitely no way I would know about what JC said if it wasn't for blind

Microsoft kintaro Dec 1, 2019

"well... have a nap... then fire the missilez!"

Amazon rockNrol Dec 1, 2019

Huhhh ok genius now tc or gtfo

Microsoft cool-kid OP Dec 1, 2019

Well idk if I'm a genius 😂😅 Thanks though

Microsoft sup999 Dec 1, 2019

Thanks for the definition. Increase in stock value would affect my tc otherwise I dont really care if M is part of this FAANG thing or not. :P

Microsoft yodling Dec 1, 2019

This is better than when Microsoft was added to the sp500

Booking.com ghbki Dec 1, 2019

I'd rather GANDFADU

Pinterest fiwh2brp Dec 1, 2019

If that attracts retail investors and brings up MSFT stock, more TC

Microsoft cool-kid OP Dec 1, 2019

That'd be nice, private investments make up <1% of investments iirc though, and I'm not sure how many serious brokers watch Mad Money and take JC seriously I think the only people that take faang seriously is people on blind

Microsoft VioD81 Dec 2, 2019

Have you seen the stock refreshers we get. Peanuts. No one is excited about our stock price least of all employees.

Microsoft iamletired Dec 3, 2019

Speak for yourself. I have over $500k in invested RSUs

Microsoft VioD81 Dec 3, 2019

I speak for the majority of Microsoft, not the outliers.