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Evan Thomas Spiegel (born June 4, 1990) [1] is an American-French businessman, co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Spiegel was the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. [2] As of August 2024 [update] , he had a personal net worth of $2.6 billion according to Forbes .
Snap Inc. is an American technology company, founded on September 16, 2011, by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown based in Santa Monica, California.The company developed and maintains technological products and services, namely Snapchat, Spectacles, and Bitmoji.
Snapchat is an American multimedia instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. One of the principal features of the multimedia Snapchat is that pictures and messages are usually available for only a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients.
Bobby Murphy (3 Years): Snapchat Co-Founder Bobby Murphy, born in California, received a B.S. at Stanford University. There, he met Spiegel, his future co-founder.
After opening at $24 a share, 41 percent above its IPO price of $17 apiece, Spiegel and Murphy saw their wealth grow exponentially in a matter of hours.
The name was later changed to Snapchat. [9] [10] After graduating from Stanford, Murphy spent a year working as a software engineer at Revel Systems (an iPad point of sale system for restaurants). Until Snapchat could secure venture capital funding, he used half of his paycheck to cover the cost of Snapchat's server bills. [11] [12]
Quibi is not moving ahead with a planned series dramatizing the rise of Snapchat and its founder, Evan Spiegel, Variety has learned exclusively. The project was announced at the SXSW film festival ...
Snapchat co-founder Reggie Brown creates the idea for an ephemeral messaging platform. [11] 2011: July: Creation: Snapchat first launches from Evan Spiegel's father's living room under the name Picaboo, as an iOS-only app. [11] [12] [13] 2012: March/April: Funding