Evan spiegel  founder of snapchat

Evan Spiegel

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  • Born

    Born
    He was born in Los Angeles, California.
  • 1st Job

    1st Job
    He had an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull.
  • College Attended

    College Attended
    Evan left Stanford to focus on snapchat
  • Major Accomplishment #1

    Major Accomplishment  #1
    While studying product design at Stanford he proposed Snapchat as a class project.
  • 2 personal characteristics

    2 personal characteristics
    -While a student, he worked as a paid intern for a biomedical company, as a careers instructor in Cape Town, South Africa, and at Intuit on the TxtWeb project.
    - Spiegel was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
  • Setback #1

    Setback #1
    In May 2014, Valleywag, a Gawker blog, released a set of emails written by Spiegel during his undergraduate career to fraternity members. Spiegel later apologized tating, "I'm obviously mortified and embarrassed that my idiotic emails during my fraternity days were made public. I have no excuse. I'm sorry I wrote them at the time and I was a jerk to have written them. They in no way reflect who I am today or my views towards women."
  • Setback #2

    Setback #2
    According to former Snapchat employee Anthony Pompliano in a lawsuit filed against Snap Inc., Spiegel made a statement in 2015 that Snapchat is "only for rich people" and that he does not "want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain."
  • Major accomplishment #2

    Major accomplishment #2
    Spiegel began dating model Miranda Kerr in 2015. The two first met each other at a Louis Vuitton dinner in New York in 2014.They became engaged on July 20, 2016.
  • Networth

    Networth
    $4.9 Billion
  • Retirement/death

    Retirement/death
    He's neither retired nor dead so...
  • New Job

    New Job
    He is the CEO of Snap chat inc.