> But none of the faang firms was here this time. Neither were Spotify, Salesforce, Uber or Microsoft. In any case most of those companies and almost 50 others – “all the famous ones” – had already rejected her internship applications a few months earlier.
One could consider other giants (Microsoft, Salesforce) and public unicorns (Uber, Spotify) as part of FAANG ("Big Tech"), not just the five companies in the literal acronym.
Unless you're suggesting that all of the tech companies smaller than that tech Fortune 500/NASDAQ tier (again, really need a phrase and maybe listing of such firms) might come to prominence?
Just fantasizing about the end of the era in which software companies feel they have to dominate a captive global user base with their one web application.
> But none of the faang firms was here this time. Neither were Spotify, Salesforce, Uber or Microsoft. In any case most of those companies and almost 50 others – “all the famous ones” – had already rejected her internship applications a few months earlier.