Evan Spiegel
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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I remember that summer, you know, after school, we went home, we're working on my dad's house and Bobby and I were just going back and forth.
And we were like, you know, we were having fun using the product.
We were sending, you know, photos back and forth.
But people would just keep saying, well, this like this just it's not about disappearing photos because you can just save them.
Like, I don't get it.
And one of the things we invented at the time, we figured out a way, we realized that if you were pressing and holding to open a snap and left your finger on the screen and you took a screenshot, it would basically trigger, you know, an event on the phone essentially that made...
the phone would essentially report that your finger had lost contact with the screen, right?
That's what the screenshot mechanism did.
So even though Apple didn't provide an API at the time to let you know that a screenshot had been taken, there was a way for us to essentially detect this touch event to learn that a screenshot had happened.
And then we would just send a notification back to the sender that, oh, the recipient had taken a screenshot.
And that for us in the early days, really resonated with our community because they didn't mind if somebody saved one of their snaps, they just wanted to know.
And I think that that, you know, that early invention was one of the first things that really got a lot of traction in the early days.
And I think, you know, helped Snapchat spread as a new way of communicating.
A lot of my view of product management was actually driven by my view of designers and the role that designers should play.
And one of the things that I was concerned about in the tech community, you know, if you look at the traditional tech org structure, you know, designers really are producing visuals.
They're not really producing the product direction or the strategy or the vision or, you know, net new products.
that new innovation, right?
They're really responsive, actually, I think in many cases to the PM saying, this is what we're building.
Now go make me some visuals.
And I absolutely did not want that type of culture to take root because again, as I mentioned, we modeled a lot of the way that we develop products here at Snap on that early relationship between myself and Bobby, really this, you know, this harmonious relationship between design and engineering and how important that is, that dialogue is to building great things and great, great products.
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