Actually it's a perfect example. Jerry Yang made the investment in Alibaba circa 2005. If you told him Yahoo! will be investing in Snapchat he would probably l

Actually it's a perfect example. Jerry Yang made the investment in Alibaba circa 2005. If you told him Yahoo! will be investing in Snapchat he would probably laugh at you. Now in 2014, Yahoo! is buying a blogging platform and investing in picture messaging with a timer. The driving force overseas is money, money, money. Not impressions or # of useless users. Comparing Alibaba investment to Snapchat is simply absurd.