Oh Snap

Snap Inc. (aka Snapchat) is down 25% today after the company disappointed with their earnings. Snap is part of the delusional dream list. TWTR + SNAP + GRPN + PINS = $178B in market value, $13B in losses.

Here is a chart that shows you the retained earnings (aka total profit/losses) for the these 4 social media companies.

All of these companies really don’t know how to make money. All of them are not young companies. In fact, the only company that has been able to monetize creepy is Facebook, or whatever they’ll call themselves next week.

Bottom line: Most of these companies’ valuations are built on delusional dreams. Once the dream starts to end, the losses are massive.

Cryptocurrency Presentation Slides

Thank you to the UCI Young Alumni Association for having me back to talk about Cryptocurrencies! It was fun discussing how I think they (and Defi) fit into the financial system.

The main takeaways are: 1) I can people thinking about Bitcoin as Gold. (But how many people own gold?) 2) I think 99% of currencies will be worthless and 3) I’m not sure what problems Defi is trying to solve.

In the short-term, who knows what will happen. I’d imagine that, since Bitcoin and Ethereum have been acting like stocks, that they will continue to go up into the best time of the year for the stock market.

You can see my slide deck here: LINK TO SLIDES