Evan Spiegel Quotes

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Evan Spiegel

Profession : Businessman

Birth : June 4, 1990

There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You have to worry about how this new content fits in with your online persona that's supposed to be you. It's uncomfortable and unfortunate.

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TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.

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The social marketing teams of big companies will always figure out a way to advertise on Snapchat. I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.

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It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

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Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it's fun.

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People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

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It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

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Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.

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What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

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Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.

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We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.

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More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

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For Snapchat, the closer we can get to 'I want to talk to you' - that emotion of wanting to see you and then seeing you - the better and better our product and our view of the world will be.

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The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

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The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go.

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In the future, we'd like to support upcoming artists, people that are trying to be actors.

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I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.

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I think, with any new product that's difficult to understand, there are always lots of questions and criticism. I think we have all the right criticism. We're just going to keep executing on what we believe.

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We don't want to own people's photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.

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Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really, really, really hard with law enforcement, with security experts, internal and external groups, to make sure you're paying attention and addressing security concerns.

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