Snap CEO: Building Snapchat, AR Glasses and the Future of Communication

Hi everybody, I'm Nikola Tanyan, the CEO of the Norwegian Sober Wealth Fund, and today I'm really thrilled. I'm here with uh Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and CEO of Snap, the company behind the very popular Snapchat. Now, it's used by nearly a billion people every day. He was 22 years old, turned down a $3 billion offer from Mark Zuckerberg, and has continued to build a company, which By the way, in Norway of all places was one of your first really, really big markets.

So fantastic to have you here. Thanks so much, Nicola. It's great to be on the on the show. And yeah, we now reach more than three million Norwegians. So very proud to uh serve the Norwegian people.

Now it started as an idea that uh most people were thought was like totally ridiculous a photo that disappears just after you look at it. So where the heck did that idea come from? Well Bobby and I had grown up with social media and on social media everything was saved forever. It was public.

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