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
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Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.
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The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.
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TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.
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It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.
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I think, with any new product that's difficult to understand, there are always lots of questions and criticism. I think we have all the right criticism. We're just going to keep executing on what we believe.
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The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go.
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Having been bullied growing up, it's something that's really near and dear to my heart. You probably won't have many friends on Snapchat if you're being a jerk.
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I feel like I'm finally learning how to use Twitter, and Tweetbot has been a huge part of that. The interface is awesome, and it lets me easily manage two accounts at once.
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It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.
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I text nonstop, and I love emoji. I'm also on the phone quite a bit for work - probably more than 10 calls per day.
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Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really, really, really hard with law enforcement, with security experts, internal and external groups, to make sure you're paying attention and addressing security concerns.
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We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm.
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Traditional social media, in the view of our company, has become a bit repetitive. It doesn't feel very good to be marketed to by your friends. Snapchat is different because it says, look, friends aren't valuable to you just because they can get you into a cool party.
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Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it's fun.