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Evan Spiegel Research Paper

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Evan Spiegel was born on the 4th of June 1990, into a wealthy family in Los Angeles, California. He is the oldest child of John W. Spiegel and Melissa Ann Thomas of whom are both Ivy League educated lawyers. His parents divorced when he was in high school. Spiegel’s childhood was very privileged and he had a $250 weekly allowance. He got his first computer in 6th grade. From a young age Spiegel was interested in technology and even gained himself the reputation of being a nerd in high school. When Spiegel turned 16 and got his driver’s licence, he was given a Cadillac Escalade. During his school time he conducted experiments with photoshop, and used to spend his free weekends at the art lab of his local high school. He also worked for the promotion of Red Bull at bars and clubs, when he was in his high school. After completing his education at …show more content…

Although the project started well it could not maintain a steady growth and ended soon after. Spiegel befriended founder Scott Cook after he gave a talk at one class. Cook ended up letting Spiegel work on a product Intuit planned to release in India while he worked on his undergrad. Spiegel was a product design major in college and the prototype for Snapchat was started by him and Brown as a project for his classes. Cook ended up becoming an early Snapchat investor because he was so impressed with Spiegel. But he thought the idea behind Snapchat was stupid. "I didn't believe in the product,” Cook told BI. “Who needs disappearing photos? I thought he was dead wrong on the business.” Spiegel slowly became more interested in developing the prototype and therefore decided to drop out of college before completing his degree in order to focus fulltime on the development of the mobile

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