Evan Spiegel
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| Born | Evan Thomas Spiegel[1] June 4, 1990 [2] Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | Stanford University |
| Occupation | CEO of Snapchat |
| Known for | Co-founder of Snapchat |
| Net worth |  US$2.1 billion (May 2016)[3] |
Evan Thomas Spiegel (born June 4, 1990) is an American Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of the mobile application Snapchat.
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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.[2]
Career
In 2012, Evan left Stanford to focus on Snapchat shortly before completing his degree.[2][6][7] While studying product design at Stanford[8] he proposed Snapchat as a class project.[9] Spiegel co-founded the mobile application Snapchat along with Robert Murphy and Reggie Brown. He is the CEO of Snapchat.[10]
Controversy
In May 2014 Valleywag, a Gawker blog, released a set of emails written by Spiegel during his undergraduate career to fraternity members that were explicitly misogynistic and homophobic in nature.[11] Spiegel later apologized for his actions and attitude towards women at the time the emails were sent, stating, "I'm obviously mortified and embarrassed that my idiotic emails during my fraternity days were made public. I have no excuse. I'm sorry I wrote them at the time and I was a jerk to have written them. They in no way reflect who I am today or my views towards women."[12]
Personal life
He began dating model Miranda Kerr in 2015.[13][14] The two first met each other at a Louis Vuitton dinner in New York in 2014.[15]
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