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Evan Spiegel
CEO, Snap IncBirth DetailsJune 4, 1990 | Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
LeagueEntrepreneur
EducationB.S Engineering, Stanford University
Net Worth$4.7 billion (As of July 23, 2020)
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Evan Spiegel's Journey so far ...
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- Snap Inc
Evan Spiegel's Journey so far ...
- Evan Thomas Spiegel completed his schooling from Santa Monica, California and then went to Stanford to pursue a course in product designing
- Along with his Stanford classmates Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown, he launched a photo-messaging app called Picaboo in 2011 which was later named Snapchat.
- Snapchat, which calls itself a camera company, is popular with youngsters as it allows users to send photos and videos that automatically disappear after a set period of time
- Since its inception at a Stanford dorm room, Snapchat ballooned into the next big thing in the world of apps and was downloaded across the world in Android and iOS devices; Spiegel left Stanford to focus on Snapchat in 2012.
- He did not take any funding for the first year; however, owing to its success, Facebook had offered $3 billion to acquire Snapchat in 2013
- Under the leadership of Spiegel, Snapchat became one of the most valued start-ups and at one point of time had a valuation of around $16-20 billion. Some of its initial investors were Yahoo, Lightspeed Venture Partners and SV Angel. In 2015, Spiegel became one of the youngest self-made billionaires
- Snapchat parent went public in 2017 in what was considered as one of the hottest tech stock offerings at that time and raised $3.4 billion. The social networking giant generates nearly all of its revenue from advertisements
- It became the biggest tech IPO after Alibaba in 2014 and Spiegel earned $272 million from it. Spiegel became one of the youngest CEOs and a member of the board of directors of a public company; he and Murphy now own about 18% in Snap
- Spiegel is involved in a big way in the Snap Foundation to help underrepresented youth in Los Angeles. He and Murphy have pledged a substantial amount of their wealth to support the foundation
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- Six years after he left, Spiegel went back to Stanford in 2018 to complete his B.S. in Engineering - Product Design
- French media reported in 2018 that Spiegel became a dual French-American citizen
- Evan Spiegel is also a trained helicopter pilot
Last Updated: 10/02/2021
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