Evan Spiegel
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1,123 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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Um, I think it was like partway through my senior year of school because I would sit in the back of my classes and refresh the little snap counter we had that just showed how many snaps were being sent.
And early on in the year, you know, it would kind of go up by one every now and then.
But midway through the year, it was incrementing, you know, very quickly.
So every time I'd check, maybe it was 100 new snaps had been sent or something like that.
And that was about the time that we realized we were running out of money to pay for the server bills.
My grandparents had given me $10,000 that I had spent.
Bobby and I had maxed out the credit cards.
My dad was like, I am not paying for people to send pictures.
What are you talking about?
So that was really the point where we were like, okay, we've got some momentum here, but now we have to figure out how to pay the server bill.
I would say definitely highly calculated risk.
Yeah, well...
I'm thinking about other risk-taking activities.
PE sounds pretty bad right now.
I think you're maybe missing the other side of the equation, which is reward, right?
What is the upside of PE class versus building a company?
I mean, I think that...
that it's so important to very thoughtfully consider if you're going to take a risk, especially a risk, like for us working on our specs glasses that are coming out later this year, this has been a 12 year undertaking, enormous amount of risk, but also one where the upside is enormous and one where we have huge strategic advantages.
So I think that's an example of a very thoughtful, calculated risk.
Well, it's interesting.
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