Evan Spiegel
12 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 21, 2025 by Evan Spiegel · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2020 1 mention in 1 episode
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Apr 21, 2025 positive
Apr 21, 2025 neutral
Spiegel: Network Size Matters Less Than Having A User's Closest Contacts
“If you have a big network, but you're only talking to three or five or seven people in that network, that actually the size of the network doesn't matter that much. What matters is that those people, those, you know, that you talk to all the time are a part of…”
Apr 21, 2025
Guy Raz: Evan Spiegel obtained French citizenship in 2018 via residency waiver
“He loves France so much, he even became a dual U.S.-French citizen back in 2018. The French government waives its residency requirements for certain people who it believes will contribute to French culture or the economy.”
Apr 21, 2025 positive
Spiegel: Eric Schmidt advised early Snap not to hire a CFO
“And so he would say, you know, hey, I'm coming to LA. I'll come by. You and Bobby just make a list of all the questions you have, and I'll help you answer them. And, you know, at that time, our questions were like, do we need a CFO? Like, you know, this kind o…”
Apr 21, 2025
Apr 21, 2025 negative
Apr 21, 2025 neutral
Apr 21, 2025
Spiegel and Murphy funded early Snap with savings and inheritance
“You know, my grandparents had left me 10,000 dollars. Bobby had some money from one of his prior jobs, and so he chipped that in. My dad, I think, put in maybe five or 10,000 dollars, but he wasn't quite keen to put in any more to help people send photos back …”
Apr 21, 2025
Spiegel: Entrepreneurial success relies heavily on family safety nets and luck
“Life isn't fair. And it's been extraordinary to have these gifts of, you know, growing up in the Palisades, being able to attend a great school, having the opportunity, the safety net to go pursue a business. I mean, but I think beyond luck, there are so many …”
Apr 21, 2025 negative
Spiegel: College admissions software is brutal due to 100% annual churn
“Ultimately we were solving a problem where even if we were really successful, our customers would essentially leave us every year. So we'd have to go get more customers the next year, and so it was just a really, really tough business, I think, to get off the …”
Apr 21, 2025
Spiegel: Founders Can Only Optimize for Two of Investors, Terms, or Valuation
“You have three things you can optimize for when you're raising money. You can optimize for the people you're working with, like the venture capitalists, You can optimize for the terms, you can optimize for the valuation, but pick two.”
Apr 21, 2025