Evan Spiegel
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4 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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It means that we need to operate, you know, really, really effectively to serve our customers.
And at the same time, we have a very, very small, you know, it sort of oscillates between like nine and 12 people design team that is constantly innovating and creating new things.
And I think, you know, the beauty of what I love about Snap is that the dialogue between those two teams is where a lot of that innovation happens.
because a lot of our engineers, you know, working to serve our customers or working on reliability have a bunch of great ideas and so do our designers.
And as long as they're in dialogue, you know, really great things can happen.
Well, I think it's really important to acknowledge that, like, new ideas come from everywhere, and we want that.
But I think the design team in particular, it's really important, and we call it the design team.
Like, it's really important that they have a flat, non-hierarchical structure, you know, where new ideas can come from anywhere.
I mean, I think that that is absolutely critical.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's an important part of it, but a lot of how we built Snap was modeled actually on mine and Bobby's original relationship, right?
Where like Bobby, you know, has a computer science, you know, heavy duty computer science and stats background, mathematical and computational science.
But he really likes design and likes thinking about, you know, building things for customers and empathizing with them.
I have a design background.
I was in the product design program back at school, which actually was part of the mechanical engineering department at the time.
I took some computer science classes, so I knew what I was talking about when it came to computer science.
So we both had mutual respect for each other and our skill sets and our backgrounds and both enjoyed talking together about the types of products we wanted to create.
And that dialogue created a lot of innovation.
And so a lot of how we've thought about growing the company over time is strengthening that dialogue between engineers and designers and creating an environment where folks feel comfortable throwing out really crazy ideas.
But I think
You know, for the design team in particular, the thing that is probably most important is the velocity of design work.
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