Evan Spiegel
Evan Spiegel
Evan Thomas Spiegelis an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the mobile app Snapchat, which he created with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth4 June 1990
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
sharing
There is real value in sharing moments that don't live forever.
largely model save
What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.
battery
I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.
preserve urge
The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.
educated life
I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.
contribute fits happens online persona static supposed
There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You have to worry about how this new content fits in with your online persona that's supposed to be you. It's uncomfortable and unfortunate.
attract companies hard profit quickly surprise work
It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.
bad
Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.
invite media party social work
Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.
conceiving conversation networking people
People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.
future people trying
In the future, we'd like to support upcoming artists, people that are trying to be actors.
advertise companies create figure people social teams
The social marketing teams of big companies will always figure out a way to advertise on Snapchat. I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.
learning surprise
The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.
conceive disrupt disruptive evolve products
I don't want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive - we don't look at something and say, 'Let's disrupt that.' It's always about how we can evolve this and make this better.