Quotes from Evan Spiegel

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

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

Someone will always have an opinion about you. Whatever you do won't ever be enough. So find something important to you. Find something that you love.

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

We built our business on creativity, and we're going to have to go through an education process for the next five years to explain to people how our users and that creativity creates value.

Traditional social media, in the view of our company, has become a bit repetitive. It doesn't feel very good to be marketed to by your friends. Snapchat is different because it says, look, friends aren't valuable to you just because they can get you into a cool party.

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

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

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.