Ivan Speigel Research Paper

Evan Speigel is a successful internet entrepreneur with a net worth of 2.1 billion dollars, making him one of the youngest billionaire in the world, and he is only 25 years old. Being the co-founder and CEO of Snapchat, along with Bobby Murphy, Speigel has been very successful in his line of work, starting while he was still a student at Stanford. Speigel lived and is still living a quite privileged life, which he admitted to, even growing up. Evan Speigel admitted to being a privileged person, "I am a young, white, educated male….I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair." Growing up with two successful parent lawyers, his mother being the youngest woman to graduate from Harvard Law School, Spiegel grew up with a very smart family surrounding him. The Spiegel family lived a very privileged life with very little worries, about money that is. Speigel grew up to be spoiled and it is proven through many heated arguments with his father about money, while being given an allowance of $250 a week.

At the end of his high school career, he began school at Stanford University in a product design program. Later, he joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity, where he met Bobby Murphy . As freshmen they created an online software that was created to help the management of college admissions, helping counselors, parents and students, which later failed. Later they were approached by Reggie Brown , wanting to delete an image from the internet that he once previously posted, this is where the idea originally began. The three fraternity brothers began to work on the idea and developed the basic ideas of Snapchat, originally named