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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Great Company with Jamie Laing · SNAP CEO EVAN SPIEGEL: How I Took a College Idea & Became the World's Youngest Billionaire · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

So I think he really showed people that if they wanted to build amazing things or design amazing things, it wasn't just about making something that looked beautiful.

It was about making something that worked beautifully.

And that to me, it's so hard to do.

And his commitment to doing that was just incredibly inspiring to me.

Yeah, our goal is to make computing more human.

So it certainly sounds aligned with some of those early ideals.

But also, I mean, I think throughout...

I mean, even, you know, think about Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog, people who were working on computers in the very, very early days, they really viewed them as accelerants for humanity, tools for humanity, and talked about them in that way.

So I think, you know, at its best, computing makes all of us better.

You know, I think for us, like, people always talk about taking the company public, right?

And we'd see all these, you know, photos and videos, everyone with the confetti coming down and they're ringing the bell and all this kind of thing.

And I remember I was meeting with a friend of mine because I went and talked to a bunch of public company CEOs before we went public, you know, and like learn, ask a bunch of questions.

And I remember one of my friends was like, whatever you do, do not get the confetti.

Tell them no confetti.

Because every single...

day from there, there on out, it's hard building a public company.

Every single time there's a hiccup or a problem with the company or whatever, they're going to put that confetti photo up.

And what was very interesting for me was how sobering that was, right?

Because I think so many people view an IPO as like an end, right?

And in so many ways, it's actually the beginning of a totally different

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