Evan Spiegel

“Mary Meeker told me the story about Evan Spiegel from Snapchat about how he just sees the iPhone as a camera. He doesn't even look at it as a phone. He's like, you're holding a camera. You know, that really carries through in the product vision for Snapchat.”

“Evan Spiegel in, in starting Snapchat or Uber and Twitter and all these companies that tend to have an impact on society. Or Facebook, they start out as little passion projects. They don't start out as missions to kind of change the world.”

“When we invested in the Series A, the company was essentially a dozen people camping out in the dining room of Evan's dad's house in Los Angeles.”

“Evan was partnered with Bobby Murphy, who was a fraternity brother of his from Stanford, who graduated a couple of years earlier. And he'd been the guy who was building all of this and had obviously demonstrated an ability to like build high quality, scalable …”

“At the time, I had as my profile a picture of me at Obama from a fundraiser that I had attended. During his first election campaign, and he said, well, you know, you had a picture of you and Obama there, so I figured you must be a decent person. So I figured I…”

“Frankly, I think the thing that probably changed the most was that they finally had a need for financing. You know, at that first meeting, they ran us through some of the metrics of the business, and it looks tremendous. And we said, well, is there anything we…”

“And with that one insight, starting from first principles, thinking about how people interact with each other, he has changed the course of all social networks, because you can't find, you know, whether it's Twitter, or LinkedIn, or, you know, obviously, Whats…”

“I got around being a CEO was from Evan Spiegel from Snap. He told me that the most important thing about being a CEO is being authentic to yourself.”

“I would say his ambitions for where he wants things to go can very occasionally get in the way of where things are, and that is the beauty of the fact that he surrounded himself with leaders who are willing to help him see that bigger picture.”

“In that moment, he was like, I have the perfect job for you. And later that day, I got a job offer in my email, and it said product designer as a job title.”

“By the way, what I would say about Evan is he spiked in certain areas. I mean, he was not Great in other areas, and I'm still not sure that he's great in the other areas.”

“So Evan from a day one had a very deep conviction on his product and, you know, like the lenses, acquisitions that we acquired, you know, Evan looked at the product and he knew exactly how people are going to use the product. You know, we finance guys. I'm lik…”

“There's a very few people who know how to build great product, and he's one of them, and he has the skill to, that sometimes when you build a great product, you don't have that install base. He has the install base. So, so I think with Evan, you're getting tha…”

“I, so, I brought Snapchat to Menlo. Evan and I hit it off. I really believe that. I was on it in the first 30 days, because my kids were on it, and so they showed it to me, and I was chasing it, and Evan and I hit it off and unfortunately Menlo passed on the, …”