Evan SpiegelSnapchatMIHKEL LUKATS

KANEPI GYMNASIUM

FORM 11

Life

Evan Spiegel(June 4;1990) was born in Los Angeles

Spiegel grew up in Pacific Palisades,California

He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts

Spiegel took design classes at the Otis College of Art and Design

While studying product design at Stanford he proposed Snapchat as a class project

Facts

He’s net worth is about US$1.5 Billion (September 2014)

He also had an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull

While astudent, 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

Of companies he admires, Spiegel emphasizes Google and Tencent

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Snapchat was founded by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy while they were studying at Stanford University

Attempted 34 projects before Snapchat

Launched in the summer of 2011 as an iPhone app called Picaboo

Later expanded to Android, added video and the ability to draw on the screen

People loved it because it was faster than MMS messages

Evan Spiegel

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