Biography
Evan Spiegel is a young American entrepreneur who today the press calls the youngest billionaire in the world. Evan is the co-founder and CEO of Snapinc, which was engaged in creating and promoting the Snapchat Messenger - one of the most anticipated mobile applications 2017.
Evan Thomas Spiegel was born in June 1990 in Los Angeles in the family of lawyers Melissa and John Spiegel, who managed to earn millions of capital. The family lived in an expensive Pasifik-Palisadez district, which competes on prestige with the famous Beverly Hills.
After the birth of three children - the son of Evan and daughters Lauren and Carolina - Mom threw legal practice and took up the upbringing of the heirs. Young Spiegeli rose in incredible luxury. In the life of children, all the attributes of the life of "Golden Youth" were attended: own yachts, tennis and golf clubs, luxury cars and personal chefs. Later, Evan Spiegel called such a childhood "life in the bubble".
Evan Spiegel learned to live on a wide leg, but, in addition, he managed to get a good education. In 15 years, the teenager was recorded immediately at 2nd the course of prestigious colleges, where Evan learned to graphic design and began to understand art.
At 16, the young man received driver's license, as well as a gift of parents - Cadillac Escalade, included with whom and place on the closed parking of Southern California Edison, which was located near Evan's study. The Father of the young man represented the interests of this company during the energy crisis, in gratitude for which he received this place.
In order for the son to understand how lucky he was in life, John Spiegel took Evan on the Christmas distribution of dinners for beggars and homeless. In addition, the family of millionaires, being the faithful parishioners of the Catholic Church, went to Mexico, where he helped build a dwelling for poor segments of the population.
In the late 2000s, a difficult time has come for the Spiegel family. Parents divorced after 20 years of living together. Long and exhausting lawsuits began, in which professional lawyers shared considerable property.
After graduating from Higher School, Evan Spiegel becomes Stanford Student. At one time, the father of the entrepreneur was studied here. In this prestigious institution, EVAN joins the student fraternity, which becomes the main organization of parties. During this period, the young man "behaves like a moron", according to his own recognition. Spiege's correspondence was preserved with classmates, where he constantly swears and lets sexy jokes to women. In 2014, when this correspondence emerged in the press, the entrepreneur brought official apologies and stated that he had long revised his own views on this issue.
Development and business
For a long time, Evan could not decide how he would do. Spiegel worked in an intern in the company that was engaged in biomedicine. Then he decided that he would become a teacher, and even went to South Africa to teach students of management. But then Spiegel became interested in computer technology.
At first, Evan was practiced at the owner of the company Intuit Scott Cook. Having received the necessary experience, Evan launched its own project. The young men's business partners were friends on Stanford Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown. It is rumored that it was Reggie that it took the idea of creating an application to smartphones called Picaboo. This is a messenger with disappearing pictures.
But Brown did not know how to program. Reggie was engaged in marketing a project and receiving a patent. Also Brown came up with the application logo - smiling ghost.
The development of the project began in June 2011. And in August, Spiegel and Murphy threw Brown from the project. To get rid of him, they even hired cooley law firm. In 2012, Brown filed a lawsuit and demanded a third business. Then co-founders changed the name from Picaboo on Snapchat. But in the fall of 2014, the parties agreed on the sum of the aputs, whose value was not disclosed.
Soon Snapchat becomes antipode of the social network brand Zuckerberg. At the same time, the project is constantly evolving. Through the application, you can now send, in addition to the videos, also 15-second video recording. And still make a 24-hour slideshow of my own day, which at midnight will disappear.
According to estimates, users ship each other every day about 350 million photos. This is the same, so many pictures are loaded throughout the day Facebook and Instagram combined together. In the fall of 2013, Mark Zuckerberg became interested in the service. The Creator "Facebook" proposed for Snapchat Evan Spikely $ 1 billion. But he refused. He said "No" and after the rate rose to $ 3 billion and, it seems, did not lose.
A little more later than the company's estimated cost, whose staff passed for half a thousand employees, reached $ 18 billion. It is assumed that through Snapchat every day there are no less than 100 million people. Messenger "I learned" to forward and advertise. In 2015, the company's revenue was $ 60 million. Thus, the state of Evan Spiegel Forbes was estimated at that time at $ 2.1 billion.
Personal life
The young man remembered the lesson of the Father, who tried to teach with the help of charity. Although Evan Spiegel has just achieved himself, the entrepreneur always understood that without the base like a cloudless childhood and a good education, which her parents gave a young man, his career would never have developed in this way.
Therefore, subsequently in the interview and at the conferences of Spiegel on questions about their own biography rarely, clisphanized phrases are rare, so loved by many businessmen, about what he made himself. On the contrary, Evan openly declares that the world is unjust, but he was lucky. A vivid example of this position was speech at the Business Conference in Stanford University, where the entrepreneur said directly that his success is clearly connected with the fact that he is "young, white, educated man", thus recognizing gender and racial inequality.
A rich and successful young man, besides, pretty cute and possess high growth, turned out to be lucky and in romantic relationships. Evan always enjoyed high attention of girls. He had novels with Taylor Swift and Kate Appon.
Evan Spiegel's personal life was always interested in the public, but special attention to it was riveted after it became aware of the romantic relationship with the former spouse Orlando Bloom, a model and actress Miranda Kerr. The 25-year-old billionaire began to meet with a 32-year-old beauty in the summer of 2015. And recently, Miranda shared the joyful news on the engagement with Evan. The actress managed to get a young rich, who at that time occupied the 854th place in the world for his state.
However, the joy of Kerr a little was a few, when the representative of Spiegel brought a woman a marriage contract, according to the terms of which, in the case of a divorce of Miranda, nothing will remain with anything. But if the marriage is happy, the beauty may not deny yourself anything.
At the end of May 2017, Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr got married. The wedding passed in Brentwide under the vulture "Top Secret." At the marriage ceremony, 45 guests were present, only relatives and close spouses.
Evan Spiegel now
In November 2017, there was information that Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr are waiting for a child. The couple did not deny these rumors, and in "Instagram" Miranda even appeared a photo on which the future mother's stomach was visible. For Kerr, this will be the second child, the younger brother of the six-year-old son Flynna, whose father became Orlando Bloom. But for Spiegel, the future kid is the firstborn.State assessment
By November 2017, when the next ranking of Forbes magazine was released, the state of Evan Spiegel was rated at $ 3.1 billion. In the same year, Evan Spiegel took the 248th place in the annual list of 400 USA.