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Co-founding Snapchat at Stanford in 2011, Spiegel introduced ephemeral messaging and AR filters to mainstream social media — inventions copied by every major competitor — while building a public company whose AR lenses have been used billions of times.
Evan Spiegel co-founded Snapchat at Stanford in 2011 and is CEO of parent company Snap Inc., which went public in 2017.
The app pioneered ephemeral messaging and mainstream AR filters, and Snap's Stories format was later adopted by Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Spiegel became one of the youngest self-made billionaires and continues to push the camera and AR as the central interface for social communication.
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