page_title: Evan Spiegel
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Evan Spiegel / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Backstage at the Crunchies 2013. Photo by Max Morse for TechCrunch.
context_page_description: Evan Thomas Spiegel is an American businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of the American social media company Snap Inc., which he created with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University. Spiegel was named the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015.
context_section_description: In April 2011, while studying product design at Stanford, Spiegel proposed an app with ephemeral messaging as a product design class project, an idea which his classmates ridiculed. 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 later renamed as Snapchat. The app's popularity grew significantly and in  2012, Evan left Stanford to focus on Snapchat shortly before completing his degree. By the end of 2012, Spiegel's Snapchat app had reached 1 million daily active users.
  In February 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. In January 2017 The Wall Street Journal  reported that after the predicted March 2017 IPO for Snap Inc., Murphy and Evan Spiegel would hold over "70% of the voting power" in the company, and own around 45% of the total stock.
  On July 19, 2018, Spiegel revealed to "Stay Tuned", NBC News's show on Snapchat that he completed his degree requirements and graduated from Stanford in 2018. He 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.
caption: Spiegel at the 7th Annual Crunchies Awards on February 10th, 2014 in San Francisco.
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