Evan Spiegel's Taboo

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Could a person's privacy be violated during sleep? When people want to share videos or pictures with another people, it takes times because they save it in their phone and they may be busy at this moment, so they send it later. A lot of people do not expect that they will express themselves, live in the moment and learn about the world’s events. “Picaboo lets you and your girlfriends send photos for peeks and not keeps!” this sentence contributed to had service that people did not expect it to be real. Evan Spiegel when he heard this phrase, he said it is worth Million dollars, but he was wrong because of this idea worth double what he thought. He is born June 4, 1990, in Los Angeles, California. Spiegel went to study product design at Stanford, …show more content…
In 2012, he left Stanford to focus on application shortly before completing his degree. He proposed a new product as a class project. Evan Spiegel is a chief executive officer (CEO) for a company worth nineteen billion and is the youngest billionaire in the world. This is a company called Snapchat.
Snapchat lets you easily talk with friends, view Live Stories from around the world, and explore news in Discover. Life's more fun when you live in the moment! (Snapchat). More precisely, it is a photo and video sharing app, and you can send disposable photos and messages called Snaps to your friends. It allows the sender to take picture or video on the snap and will enable users to set a one second to ten seconds and the recipient can view it before the file disappears from the

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