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
battery
I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.
If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.
dropped gets send typing
Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.
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.
biggest content farther feed social time
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.
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.