Snapchat haters and lovers: a history

Snap Inc. is the shiniest thing on Wall Street right now. But it wasn't always like that.

As recently as a year ago, Snapchat was a roll-your-eyes startup. To the biggest names in tech, advertising, and media, Snapchat was "too confusing"—just a "sexting" app and simply "overhyped." 

Chris Sacca, an early stage investor in Uber, Twitter, Instagram and Kickstarter, had been approached by the company in its younger days, but passed: “I was like, ‘The dick pics?’” he told CNNMoney last year. “That probably cost me like a billion dollars.”  Read more...