In 2014, emails sent by Spiegel during his time at Stanford were leaked to Gawker. In January 2017 The Wall Street Journal reported that after the predicted March 2017 IPO for Snap Inc., Murphy and Evan Spiegel would hold over '70% of the voting power' in the company, and own around 45% of the total stock. Their mission is to 'develop pathways to the creative economy for underrepresented youths in Los Angeles.' Recently they have donated $3 million to people affected by COVID-19.

They have created the Snap Foundation which is a non-profit organization targeted to help in these areas. In February 2017, Spiegel and Murphy pledged to donate upwards of 13,000,000 shares of Class A common stock over the next 15–20 years to an arts, education and youth non-profit. Spiegel speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference Spiegel is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. While a student, he worked as a paid intern for a biomedical company, as a careers instructor in Cape Town, South Africa, and at Intuit on the TxtWeb project. He also had an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull. Spiegel took design classes at the Otis College of Art and Design while still in the high school and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena the summer before entering Stanford. He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University. He grew up in Pacific Palisades, California, where he was raised Episcopalian. Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California, to lawyers John W.

As of March 2023, he had a personal net worth of $2.7 billion according to Forbes. Spiegel was the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. Evan Thomas Spiegel (born June 4, 1990) is an American ( naturalized French in 2018) businessman, co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc.

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