Will the Snapchat unicorn bring you riches?

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Snapchat is listing shortly, probably early March. It’s a unicorn, a start-up with a valuation over $1b.

It’s going to be valued at lots (USD25b?), and it loses money, which makes it hard to value. In the end, it’s a lottery ticket.

Late last year there was a research paper out suggesting that the investment return on stocks like this are not that different from lottery tickets:

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