5-month-old Instinct valued at $10B with zero revenue, dwarfing Snapchat's $9B
jonchu · x · 2026-09-17
A viral comparison: Snapchat, 15 years old with 493M daily users and $6.5B/yr revenue, is valued at $9B, while Instinct, founded 5 months ago with 100K users and zero revenue, is valued at $10B. jonchu says he can't predict Instinct's fate but will find it funny either way — whether haters are proven wrong or kingmaking VCs eat humble pie — commending Noah Shinn for LOLmaxxing.
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