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Evan Spiegel Quotes

It’s not about working harder; it’s about working the system.

– Evan Spiegel

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.

– Evan Spiegel

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

– Evan Spiegel

When we’re in that kind of childish space, we’re more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.

– Evan Spiegel

We’ve never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.

– Evan Spiegel

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they’re largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don’t try to save it.

– Evan Spiegel

It’s no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.

– Evan Spiegel

We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out.

– Evan Spiegel

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.

– Evan Spiegel

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.

– Evan Spiegel

There is real value in sharing moments that don’t live forever.

– Evan Spiegel

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.

– Evan Spiegel

If we take a step back and look at what Snapchat is, it all starts with the camera.

– Evan Spiegel

I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn’t fair.

– Evan Spiegel

If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.

– Evan Spiegel

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.

– Evan Spiegel

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

– Evan Spiegel

I’m not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that’s been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that’s really been the challenge.

– Evan Spiegel

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.

– Evan Spiegel

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.

– Evan Spiegel

I feel like I’m finally learning how to use Twitter, and Tweetbot has been a huge part of that. The interface is awesome, and it lets me easily manage two accounts at once.

– Evan Spiegel

People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, ‘Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,’ or, ‘The more people you know, the more networked you are.’ But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

– Evan Spiegel

Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.

– Evan Spiegel

We don’t want to own people’s photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.

– Evan Spiegel

In tech in particular, everyone is so serious all the time and has these grand visions.

– Evan Spiegel

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.

– Evan Spiegel

TheIinternet is a timeless void – you put something in there, and it’s there forever and loses a lot of context.

– Evan Spiegel

Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it’s bad or if it’s really embarrassing.

– Evan Spiegel

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.

– Evan Spiegel

The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.

– Evan Spiegel

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