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You make it sound like Snap is a failure.

It is worth $16b even after the affect of this earnings report.

Facebook might have slowed their growth but they did make a huge company before they were slowed down.

But what is Snap really worth? They don't have assets and don't make a product but rather provide a service. A service is only as valuable as the number of people who use it. If Facebook continues to steal users away from Snap at the current rate, it will go they way of myspace before long.

Its a liquid stock with volume of $10m+/day. It seems like its worth what other people are willing to pay for it.

Very true, but just like bitcoin was once 5$ and now 5000$ nothing of substance is preventing it from returning to 5$ once again other than "investors" (more like speculators). As Rupert Murdoch learned the hard way, what was worth 580 Million in 2005 was worth $35 Million by 2011 once the users left.

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