EVAN SPIEGELfounder, CEO- SNAPCHAT

Made by-Himani Shukla

INTRODUCTION

• Evan Spiegel is a successful, self made billionaire who founded snapchat, a photo sharing mobile application

• Evan was born in Los Angeles, California, to Melissa Ann Thomas and John W. Spiegel. Both of his parents are lawyers.

• He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University

• He founded Snapchat at the tender age of 22 whilst studying at Stanford University.

• He initially presented the idea as a class project, before going ahead - along with co-founders Robert Murphy and Reggie Brown - to build it as a social networking platfom.

• Although Even Spiegel co-founded Snapchat with two others, he is the one who claimed the title of Chief Executive Officer the company.

Some facts about him• Joining the same club as Bill Gates, Mark

Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs, in 2012 Evan dropped out of Stanford and his course in Product Design.

• In 2013, he turned down a $3 billion cash acquisition offer from Facebook that would have personally netted him $750 million.• According to Forbes, Spiegel's current net worth is $2.1 billion.

ABOUT SNAPCHAT

• Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application which was released on september 2011.

• The corporate headquarters are located in Venice, California.

• The idea behind creating snapchat was to create a selfie app which allowed users to share images that were explicitly short-lived and self-deleting.

Why is he an idol to me?

• Despite choosing a promising career like that of his parents, Evan chose to do something off beat.

• He was a below average student, but such an enthusiast bout his project that he dropped off his college degree without giving any second thought.

• He turned down $3 billion from Facebook.“There are very few people in the world who get to build a business like this," he told Forbes at the time. "I think trading that for some short-term gain isn't very interesting."

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