Emily Chang

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2,327 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 12 Feb

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The Circuit with Emily Chang · Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is Betting on Smart Glasses · 7 Nov 2025 podcast

Snapchat burst onto the scene in 2011, a heady time for social media startups. matched

Facebook had just bought Instagram, Twitter was on the rise, and Spiegel had started Snapchat with two college friends at Stanford. matched

What was it that made you say, I need to drop out? matched

I need to do this. matched

Within a couple of years, Snapchat was rising in popularity, stirring up its fair share of controversy and making Spiegel the world's youngest billionaire by age twenty-five. matched

What was your first I made it purchase? matched

Spiegel has also grown up a bit, but is still very much in founder mode. matched

Now in his 30s, he's running a multi-billion dollar company that's locked in competition with both trillion dollar rivals and smaller startups. matched

To stay in the game, he's betting big on smart glasses and the future of augmented reality, even as tech's biggest players crowd the field, like Meta, Google, and Apple. matched

In a recent letter to shareholders, Spiegel wrote. matched

But Snap is at a crucible moment, faced with many obstacles that will define its future. matched

We sat down to talk about what it's like to fight in a land of giants, how Snap navigates the dark side of social media, TikTok and China, and why he thinks the screens of today won't look anything like the screens of tomorrow. matched

Okay, so it's easy to forget because it's been so long now, but Snap popularized so many things that are just like a fact of social media today. matched

Disappearing messages, stories, filters and lenses, even vertical video, location tags. matched

What was it about you and Snap's culture that enabled that? matched

So it was all about making things more human, more intuitive. matched

I actually remember the first time I saw Snapchat in the wild. matched

We were at an ice cream parlor and there was this crowd of kids in front of us, and they all had their phones up, and I was like, oh, they're taking pictures of the ice cream. matched

And my husband whispered, they're Snapchat. matched

Oh, this i this is becoming a thing. matched

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