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
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.
sharing
There is real value in sharing moments that don't live forever.
along building forgot social somewhere
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.
bit cool good social valuable view
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.
When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.
difficult executing lots product
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.
closer seeing view wanting
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.
bit calls love per quite text work
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.
dear near
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.
We don't want to own people's photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.
conversation essence format snaps wanting
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.
loses void
TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.