Snapchat has since raised another $55 million at a reported $US2 billion valuation – less than Facebook's reported bid, but getting there. At age 25, Evan Spiegel - the co-founder and CEO of Snapchat - is the worlds youngest billionaire. Rift Between The Co-founders Snapchat was now a big shot. Evan Spiegal never seeked short term gains, a big win mattered to him the most. Zuckerberg paid another visit to the young company in 2013 to make his bid to buy it, but by that point Snapchat's founders felt they had an edge. Spiegel, a visionary entrepreneur, refused to sell his venture even though he and his co-workers were to net around 750 million from the Facebook deal. That app was Facebook Poke, which proved to be a flop. 16 de 26 Evan Spiegel y Miranda Kerr son guapos, con talento, millonarios y felices, ¿no encarnan a la pareja perfecta. Join Facebook to connect with Evan Spiegel and others you may know. "It was basically like, 'We're going to crush you'," Spiegel told Forbes about the meeting. View the profiles of people named Evan Spiegel. The deeper reason for the decision, at least according to the Forbes profile, is that Snapchat's founders sensed weakness and opportunity.įacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg first flew out to meet Spiegel in his hometown at the end of 2012 and proceeded to try scaring Snapchat's founders by telling them that Facebook planned to release a nearly identical app a few days later. Forbes calculates that Spiegel and his co-founder Bobby Murphy would each have received $US750 million from the Facebook offer. That might sound like a standard enough talking point for a founder until you consider just how much the "short-term gain" actually was.
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