9 Inspiring Quotes from the 27-Year-Old Billionaire and Snap Co-Founder Evan SpiegelWhile Snapchat might have lost its mojo, Evan Spiegel sure didn't.
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Snap Inc. co-founder and one of theyoungest billionairesof the decadeEvan Spiegel有足够的智慧与其余的分享吗world.
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While studying at Stanford in2011, Spiegel developed Snapchat with his co-founders Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown. The groundbreaking tech shook up the social media world, offering a fun, new way for people to send and receive disappearing photos and videos. While the platform has sincegone publicand its technology mimicked by other majorsocial mediachannels like Facebook and Instagram, it still remains a popular social sharing app with Spiegel as its co-founder and CEO.
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And thanks to this success, Spiegel has topped the list for some of today's most successful and wealthiest under-30-year-olds, recently being the named youngest member ofForbe's2017 Forbes 400 list. There's much to learn from Spiegel and his work at Snap Inc. To learn more, here are nine quotes from the billionaire millennial.
On creativity
"I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear." -- Evan SpiegelOn success
"It's not about working harder, it's about working the system." -- Evan SpiegelOn running a business
"We're just going to keep executing on what we believe." -- Evan Spiegel
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On the future
"I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach." -- Evan SpiegelOn perseverance
"In times of despair, you may believe the cynic who tells you that one person cannot make difference -- and there are times it may be hard to see your own impact. I beg you to remember that it is not possible at this time or any time to know the end results of our efforts." -- Evan SpiegelOn passion
"Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is; we want to be accepted by our peers; we want to be a part of the group. It's in our biology. But the things that make us human are those times we listen to the whispers of our soul and allow ourselves to be pulled in another direction." -- Evan SpiegelOn growth
"Don't feel bad if you sell out. Just don't stop there. Find something you aren't willing to sell." -- Evan Spiegel
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On perseverance
"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