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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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 snap with my mom. It was a great way for me to see my dog when I was in college. We send selfies, too.
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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.
We don't want to own people's photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.
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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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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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For Snapchat, the closer we can get to 'I want to talk to you' - that emotion of wanting to see you and then seeing you - the better and better our product and our view of the world will be.
We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.
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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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Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.
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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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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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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.
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The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.