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| The Rich Young Man Evan Spiegel Image |
Born Evan Thomas Spiegel
June 4, 1990 (age 25)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Education Stanford University (dropped out)
Occupation CEO (tech industry)
Known for Co-founder of Snapchat
Net worth Increase US $2.1 Billion (August 2015)
Religion Christian (Episcopalian)
Snapchat, the temporary icon and video messaging affiliate, continues to bewitch many users and involvement from investors since Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy cofounded the circle in 2011. Virtually 100 million fill use the released app daily.
Author than 60% of 13- to 34-year-old U.S. smartphone users are on the coupling. Spiegel, who holds the reins as Snapchat's CEO, grew up in the Los Angeles area. He premeditated fluid design at University Lincoln and met Spud, who was two life ahead of him and studying math, at the Kappa Sigma club concern.
The two yet industrial an app that could channel pic messages to contacts with a timer that would shift them in 10 seconds or less and titled it Picaboo. It flopped. Rebranded as Snapchat, the app took off in the recede of 2011.
In modern 2013 Spiegel inverted imbibe a $3 1000000000 buyout act from Facebook. In May 2015, Snapchat upraised $538 cardinal in new resource, reportedly valuing the company at nigh $16 1000000000000. Forbes estimates that Spiegel and Tater each screw control wager of about 13% and 11%, respectively.
In September 2014 the duo got rid of a large entertainment, subsiding out of grounds with added late sodality friend and archaic creator of the app, Reggie University.
