Evan Spiegel
Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the maker of Snapchat.
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- Evan Spiegel is the co-founder and chief executive of Snap Inc.
- He proposed an app with disappearing messages as a Stanford product-design class project in April 2011, and built it with classmates Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown; first called Picaboo, it was renamed Snapchat.
- He left Stanford in 2012 to work on it and finished his degree in 2018.
- Snap went public in March 2017, when he was 26.
Key facts
- Current role
- Co-founder and CEO, Snap Inc.2
- Born
- 4 June 1990, Los Angeles, California1
- Education
- Stanford University; left in 2012, completed his degree in 20181
- Snapchat
- Proposed as a class project in April 2011; built with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown1
- Boards
- KKR (joined 2021); Gagosian (joined November 2022); Berggruen Institute1
- Snap Foundation
- Set up with Bobby Murphy after a 2017 pledge of up to 13 million Snap shares1
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