Snapchat

Snapchat is an image messaging application software product created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown [3] when they were students at Stanford University.[4][5][6][7]

According to Snapchat’s published statistics, as of May 2015, the app’s users were sending 2 billion photos and videos per day, while Snapchat Stories content was being viewed 500 million times per day. In November 2015, the number reached 6 billion sent videos per day.[8] The company has a valuation of $10–$20 billion, depending on the source.[9] In 2016, Snapchat hit 7 billion daily video views.[10]

Evan Spiegel

Evan Thomas Spiegel (born June 4, 1990) is an American Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of the mobile application Snapchat.

Early life and education

Evan was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Melissa Ann Thomas and John W. Spiegel, who are lawyers.[5] Spiegel grew up in Pacific Palisades, California. He was raised attending an Episcopal church.[4] He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University.[2] 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.[2] He also had an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull.[2] 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.