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The Clash Between Snap’s IPO and What Really Makes It Great

The Clash Between Snap’s IPO and What Really Makes It Great

The Clash Between Snap’s IPO and What Really Makes It Great

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

March 3, 20178m 19s

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Show Notes

Today, Snap starts its life as a publicly traded company—the buzziest tech IPO of the year and likely the most valuable in the US since Alibaba debuted in 2014. The event carries the fascination of an impending rocket launch: Is this thing actually going to take off? Or will it crash and burn in a huge, morbid spectacle (of Spectacles)? Snap has tried to sell investors on the idea that it has cachet other social platforms don’t. Invest in us, the company urges.

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