One of the representatives of the American "golden youth" Evan Spiegel not only preserved the wealth of his parents, but also increased it several times. Today he is called the youngest billionaire in the world, and he made his capital on the wishes of people to send photos and short videos to each other.
Evan Spiegel is still young, but already very rich. Together with friends, he founded SnapInc, creating the Snapchat messenger. It was one of the most popular mobile apps of 2017.
Biography
Evan’s life cannot be called an “American dream, ” because since childhood he had everything he wanted. His family lived in a prestigious area of Los Angeles, where the boy was born in 1990. His parents were lawyers and were able to make a decent capital. The family had three children, and mother had to leave work to be with them. The whole family lived in a big way: they had a yacht, their own golf club, the most expensive cars and the best cooks.
Parents did not spoil Evan - they wanted to give him a good education, so he went to different courses, got the right to drive a car. And also he attended the distribution of dinners for the poor - so the parents wanted to show their son that not everyone lives like him.
The idyll did not last long: when the parents decided to divorce, long lawsuits began. However, this did not unsettle Evan, because he was preparing to start an independent life and had to think about entering Stanford.
After school, Spiegel searched for himself for a long time, until he realized that computer technology was the future, and you need to think in this direction. He gained the necessary knowledge, and together with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown they created a smartphone app with disappearing images - Picaboo. The logo was a smiling ghost.
Successful business
Soon, the service became interesting to other businessmen, and Mark Zuckerberg decided to buy Snapchat, offering Evan a billion dollars. However, Spiegel refused. When, after a few years, the rate rose to three billion, he again did not agree to sell the business. He felt that the price of his brainchild would only grow, and he was not mistaken.
Today, the application is used by almost one hundred million people, the messenger sends ads, revenue per year is more than sixty million dollars.
