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Will Snap exist in 5 years?

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An article much more relevant to that question: https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/slowchat/

It took Instagram Stories two quarters to catch up to Snapchat's total MAU.

Yes.

If anyone wants to bet against them existing, I'll take the bet.

They'll exist, doesn't mean they'll be relevant, or profitable. If I were asked to bet against the stock, I probably would. Everything about their valuation and IPO smells to high heavens.

Fortunately for you, you can take that bet!

As soon as Snap goes public, you can short the stock. Go for it!

I prefer to deal in options, and options won't trade on the symbol for a while.

It's a shame that what started as one of the most private messaging apps around still doesn't use end-to-end encryption and has since been surpassed by many on that front, though.

I would bet that they don't end up completing the terms of the Google contract as signed; and that it would be heavily modified by year 3 of the contract.

They can't possibly. Those spectacles are unforgivable

What are the terms? I'd take that action if we're talking in their current form/focus.

Won't matter, enough money would have been extracted from the public. Why do you think they are going public?

Yes, I think so.

I'm not sure about Twitter, Groupon, or Uber.

Will "Google Cloud Platform" exist in 5 years?

Well with this agreement in place I reckon it would. I was a bit skeptical before.

Will America exist in 5 years?

(See how obnoxious this sounds?)

One supposes that might seem "obnoxious", to those who were somehow psychologically committed to what... the perpetual existence of America? That ain't me. It seems unlikely that the continent will sink into the ocean anytime in the next five years, however.

Perhaps I could have been clearer, but I didn't say that Alphabet would fail anytime soon anyway. I referred rather to G's habit of discontinuing popular services.

Will MySpace exist in 5 years?

https://myspace.com/

Obviously this doesn't have the same infrastructure requirements

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