Evan Spiegel
18 statements across 1 episodes · 11 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 12, 2026 by Evan Spiegel · said 12 times in 3 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Apr 12, 2026
Spiegel: Monday mornings start with a 2.5-hour Spectacles risk review
“Yeah, so, so my Monday morning, for example, is like two to two and a half hours in the specs business going through the risks and dependencies. Red, yellow, you know, red, orange, yellow, green. What are we doing to solve it? Right? And what progress are we m…”
Apr 12, 2026 positive
Apr 12, 2026 bullish
Apr 12, 2026
Spiegel: The internet's permanence originated from expensive disk-drive overwrite costs
“One of the reasons why everything was saved forever is because hard drives, disk-based hard drives, right, were expensive to write over. And so it was actually more expensive to go back and write over something enough to delete it than it was to just leave it …”
Apr 12, 2026 bearish
Spiegel: The market for standalone camera glasses is very small
“As part of starting to work on camera glasses, not only do we realize, first of all, that the market for camera glasses is very small. Right. That ultimately your phone is very good for taking photos, even if you're on a jet ski, or even if you're rock climbin…”
Apr 12, 2026 positive
Spiegel: Snap manufactures core AR components in its own US and UK facilities
“Yeah, people you know, I think would be stunned to learn that we manufacture core components in the U.S. And the U.K., right, in our own facilities, which allow us to do this really advanced R&D to push the boundaries of what's, you know, what's possible with …”
Apr 12, 2026 negative
Spiegel: There is no defensible moat in software alone
“You know, you look at the last 15 years, we learned very, very early on that there's no moat in software, which was an incredibly powerful lesson, right? All of our ideas, the things that we invent, people just try to copy right away, and it's easy to do that …”
Apr 12, 2026 bullish
Spiegel expects companies to adopt flatter structures and wider spans of control
“Yeah, and I think, you know, generally speaking, I would expect the world to move towards flatter structures and much larger spans of control because like the communication and organization tax today is like night and day what it was 20 or 30 years ago. Like, …”
Apr 12, 2026 bullish
Apr 12, 2026
Spiegel: Communication network value depends on close ties rather than raw scale
“So actually, you know, what reflects the value of the network is, you know, are the people that you actually talk to and communicate with, especially the ones you communicate more frequently, are they a part of your network? And if they are, Then you can accru…”
Apr 12, 2026 bullish
Spiegel: AI tools allow Snap designers to ship code directly
“Well, now that's happening incredibly quickly because designers can ship code with, you know, all these new AI tools. The whole world of design is changing, I think, very rapidly, because now, you know, many of our designers are just empowered. If they've got …”
Apr 12, 2026 positive
Spiegel: Removing likes and comments unlocked authentic self-expression
“They didn't have these likes and comments, which opened up this whole new world of self-expression, right? Because instead of just trying to post what would look pretty or popular or perfect, people were sharing this whole range of human emotions.”
Apr 12, 2026 positive
Spiegel: Snapchat opens to camera to ground users in physical reality
“Even basic things like opening into the camera, right? It opens into your experience of the world, right? Not, you know, a feed of content from other people, not a messaging feed alerting you to what other people are sending you. It literally opens into your e…”
Apr 12, 2026 positive
Spiegel: Snap adopted Walmart's 'In It to Win It' problem-surfacing format
“I think one of the things that's really, I stole this from Walmart, which I thought was great. They have a Friday meeting called in it to win it. They have their leaders from across the company, not just like super senior leaders, but leaders from across the c…”
Apr 12, 2026 positive
Apr 12, 2026
Apr 12, 2026 negative
Spiegel: Spending eight hours a day on computers is a societal disaster
“The biggest problem that I see today is people spending seven or eight hours a day on their computer and spending their life operating a computer. I think that is like a disaster for our society. And I think like we have to change that. And if we don't, like w…”