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PROFILE
Evan Spiegel
Cofounder, Snap
$3B
$34M (1.11%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 10/7/24
#1168 in the world todayReflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
Photo by Courtesy of SnapChat
From the Editor
- Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap, became a billionaire at the age of 25.
- Each day, some 432 million people use Snapchat to send disappearing photos and videos to friends. The company booked $4.6 billion in revenue in 2023 and boasts about 850 million monthly users.
- Spiegel launched the company with Bobby Murphy, a Stanford University fraternity brother, in 2011.
- Murphy and Spiegel jointly own about a quarter of Snap but have voting shares that give them control over the board.
- He graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in product design in 2018, six years after he first dropped out to start Snapchat.
- Spiegel has donated more than $280 million in Snap stock. He and Murphy have pledged to donate 13 million shares to the youth-focused Snap Foundation.
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 34
- Source of Wealth
- Snapchat, Self Made
- Residence
- Los Angeles, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, Stanford University
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