1. Evan Thomas Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California, to lawyers John W Spiegel and Melissa Ann Thomas.
12 Facts About Evan Spiegel
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Evan Spiegel grew up in Pacific Palisades, California, where he was raised Episcopalian.
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Evan Spiegel was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University.
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Evan Spiegel had an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull.
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Later that year, Evan 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.
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The app's popularity grew significantly and in 2012, Evan Spiegel left Stanford to focus on Snapchat shortly before completing his degree.
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Evan Spiegel later completed his remaining credits and graduated in 2018.
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Evan Spiegel joined the board of directors of investment management company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 2021.
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Evan Spiegel has three sons with Kerr and a stepson from Kerr's previous marriage to Orlando Bloom.
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In 2017, Evan Spiegel became one of the youngest public company CEOs at age 26 when Snap began trading in March.
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Evan Spiegel is a member of the Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council and its board of directors.
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In 2022, at the Otis College of Art and Design commencement, Evan Spiegel announced that he and Miranda Kerr would pay off the 2022 graduating class student's debt.