Words matter. These are the best Evan Spiegel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It’s like FedEx – they let you know when the package gets dropped off.
Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing.
I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.
Cars bring me sheer joy.
Someone will always have an opinion about you. Whatever you do won’t ever be enough. So find something important to you. Find something that you love.
Having been bullied growing up, it’s something that’s really near and dear to my heart. You probably won’t have many friends on Snapchat if you’re being a jerk.
I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn’t fair.
Five years ago, we came to the realization that the camera can be used for more than capturing memories. We showed it can be used for talking. The dream for us is expanding the camera and what it can do for your life. It has capabilities beyond making memories.
Generally speaking, the people who come to work at Snapchat believe in personal growth. It’s part of why Snapchat’s stories are ephemeral, because you will be a different person tomorrow.
Ephemeral should be the default.
The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don’t differentiate between snaps and chats. It’s just someone wanting to talk to you.
It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.
It’s not about working harder; it’s about working the system.
Traditional social media, in the view of our company, has become a bit repetitive. It doesn’t feel very good to be marketed to by your friends. Snapchat is different because it says, look, friends aren’t valuable to you just because they can get you into a cool party.
We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm.
Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is. But the thing that makes us human are those times we listen to the whispers of our soul and allow ourselves to be pulled in another direction.
There is real value in sharing moments that don’t live forever.
We don’t want to own people’s photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.
The social marketing teams of big companies will always figure out a way to advertise on Snapchat. I’d like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.
I snap with my mom. It was a great way for me to see my dog when I was in college. We send selfies, too.
I’d like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.
It’s important to be thoughtful and mindful about the things you say to other people.
The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.
I don’t want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive – we don’t look at something and say, ‘Let’s disrupt that.’ It’s always about how we can evolve this and make this better.
I just try really hard to be me, and sometimes that means I’m unfiltered. I try to give people myself because I think making a great product is being in touch with how you feel about things and being able to express things. I really hope I can stay in touch with how I feel about things and I’m able to express that.
We’ve never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.
Online one day, you log in, and you realise, ‘This is not me.’ Everything you’re posting, you’re doing it in the context of everything you’ve posted before. Let’s delete everything, save the stuff that’s important, and then you only have to organise the one per cent that’s worth keeping.
Social media is about friending someone so they’ll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that’s the work, Snapchat is the playground.
For Snapchat, the closer we can get to ‘I want to talk to you’ – that emotion of wanting to see you and then seeing you – the better and better our product and our view of the world will be.
People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn’t make it Google.
Snapchat really has to do with the way photographs have changed. Historically, photos have always been used to save really important memories: major life moments. But today… pictures are being used for talking.
If we take a step back and look at what Snapchat is, it all starts with the camera.
One of the things I’m trying to get better at is apologizing when I make mistakes. That’s been a big priority of mine.
I think diversity is a challenge everywhere.
I think, with any new product that’s difficult to understand, there are always lots of questions and criticism. I think we have all the right criticism. We’re just going to keep executing on what we believe.
