Evan Spiegel Biography
Evan Spiegel is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder of Snapchat. A social media platform that allows users to share photos and short videos. That disappear after a short period of time.
Spiegel created it as Snapchat Inc with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while still students at Stanford University. He was named the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015.
He took design classes at the Otis College of Art and Design. While still in high school and also at the Art Center College of Design. In Pasadena the summer before entering Stanford.
Evan also had an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull. Spiegel worked as a paid intern for a biomedical company while a student. As a careers instructor in Cape Town, South Africa. And at Intuit on the TxtWeb project. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Evan Spiegel Age
Spiegel was born On June 4, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, U.S. He is [agecalc birthdate=1990-06-04]
Evan Spiegel Jewish
Despite a rumor that the entrepreneur is Jewish, he is not. Spiegel is Episcopalian and his ancestry is “…German, Irish, English, small amounts of French, Scottish, Swiss-German, and Welsh, and remote Cornish.
Evan Spiegel Religion
Spiegel has not yet disclosed on his religion.
Evan Spiegel Family
Evan was born to John W and Melissa Ann Thomas, both lawyers. His parents raised him Episcopalian in Pacific Palisades, California, where he grew up. He attended the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and then attended Stanford University.
Miranda Kerr And Evan Spiegel | Miranda Kerr | Evan Spiegel Wife | Girlfriend
Kerr and Evan are a married couple. Miranda Kerr is a well-known Australian model, while Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of the social media platform Snapchat.
Miranda Kerr and Evan got married in a private ceremony in May 2017, and now have two children together. Prior to meeting Spiegel, Miranda Kerr was previously married to actor Orlando Bloom, and they have a son together.
Evan Spiegel Snapchat
While studying product design at Stanford in April 2011, Evan proposed an app with ephemeral messaging as a product design class project, an idea which his classmates ridiculed.
Evan Spiegel And Bobby Murphy
Later that year, Spiegel worked with fellow Stanford classmates Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown to launch a prototype of this concept called “Picaboo”, which they then renamed as Snapchat.
Then the app’s popularity grew significantly and in 2012, Spiegel left Stanford to focus on Snapchat shortly before completing his degree. Spiegel’s Snapchat app had reached 1 million daily active users by the end of 2012.
The duo 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 in February 2017.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that after the predicted March 2017 IPO for Snap Inc., Bobby and Evan would hold over “70% of the voting power” in the company, and also own around 45% of the total stock.
Evan revealed to “Stay Tuned”, NBC News’s show on July 19, 2018, on Snapchat that he completed his degree requirements and graduated from Stanford in 2018. Spiegel notes that his baby, Hart Kerr Spiegel, was his motivation to complete his collegiate education so that he can inspire his son to graduate from college as well.
Evan Spiegel Net Worth
The Snap Inc. CEO has an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion as of December 2018.
Evan Spiegel Forbes
Evan was ranked #854 on the Forbes 400 with $4 billion in wealth as of 2016. He is also a member of the Berggruen Institute’s 21st Century Council.
Evan Spiegel Height
The billionaire stands at a height of 5 ft 11 in or 180 cm.
Evan Spiegel House
A month before getting engaged to Kerr, Spiegel purchased a 7,164 square feet, $12 million house which Harrison Ford had previously owned.
