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Spiegel in November 2013
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| Born | Evan Thomas Spiegel June 4, 1990 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-founder of Snap Inc. |
| Net worth |  US$4.6 billion (April 2017) |
| Title | CEO of Snap Inc. |
Evan Thomas Spiegel (born June 4, 1990) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc., which he created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University.
Early life and education
Evan was born in Los Angeles, California, to Melissa Ann Thomas and John W. Spiegel, both lawyers. Spiegel grew up in Pacific Palisades, California. He was raised Episcopalian. He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University.
Spiegel took design classes at the Otis College of Art and Design while still in high school and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena the summer before entering Stanford. He also had an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull. 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.
Career
In 2012, Evan left Stanford to focus on Snapchat shortly before completing his degree. While studying product design at Stanford he proposed Snapchat as a class project. Spiegel co-founded the mobile application Snapchat along with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown. He is the CEO of Snap, Inc.
The The Wall Street Journal has reported that after the predicted March 2017 IPO for Snap Inc., Murphy and Spiegel would hold over “70% of the voting power” in the company, and own around 45% of the total stock.
In February of 2017, Spiegel and Murphy, pledged to donate upwards of 13,000,000 shares of Class A common stock over the next 15–20 years to an arts, education and youth non-profit.
- Snapchat creator Spiegel became one of the youngest public company CEOs at age 26 when Snap began trading in March 2017.
- Each day some 191 million people use Snapchat to send disappearing messages; the app faces growing competition from Facebook-owned Instagram.
- Spiegel cofounded the company with Bobby Murphy, a Stanford University fraternity brother, in 2011.
- Spiegel and Murphy each own about 18% of Snap but have voting shares that give them control over the board.
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