About Evan Spiegel: Evan Thomas Spiegel is an American Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of the mobile application Snapchat.
Traditional social media, in the view of our company, has become a bit repetitive. It doesn't feel very good to be marketed to by your friends. Snapchat is different because it says, look, friends aren't valuable to you just because they can get you ...
We are not advertising ourselves as a secure platform. It's a communication platform. It's not our job to police the world or Snapchat of jerks.
I snap with my mom. It was a great way for me to see my dog when I was in college. We send selfies, too.
In the future, we'd like to support upcoming artists, people that are trying to be actors.
I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.
The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.
I feel like I'm finally learning how to use Twitter, and Tweetbot has been a huge part of that. The interface is awesome, and it lets me easily manage two accounts at once.
I text nonstop, and I love emoji. I'm also on the phone quite a bit for work - probably more than 10 calls per day.
The social marketing teams of big companies will always figure out a way to advertise on Snapchat. I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.
It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.
Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it's fun.
Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.
More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.
For Snapchat, the closer we can get to 'I want to talk to you' - that emotion of wanting to see you and then seeing you - the better and better our product and our view of the world will be.
I don't want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive - we don't look at something and say, 'Let's disrupt that.' It's always about how we can evolve this and make this better.
I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.
It's important to be thoughtful and mindful about the things you say to other people.
When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.
If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.
There is real value in sharing moments that don't live forever.
