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Re:Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results by JonFish85 on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:04PM (#15648092)
The footnote kind of explains this:

"Net loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 includes $2.5 billion of stock-based compensation expense, primarily due to the recognition of expense related to RSUs with a performance condition satisfied on the effectiveness of the registration statement for our initial public offering."

I believe the vast majority of that was due to issuing stock to Evan Spiegel for successfully executing the IPO at given metrics.

Re:Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results by rrhd on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:56PM (#15665816)
Totally deserves billions for running a money losing operation thats getting eaten alive by the competition.