They in no way reflect who I am today or my views towards women.” The emails leaked by ValleyWag were sent during his frat days, and included a slew of misogynistic jokes, anecdotes about drunkenly urinating on drunk girls, and brags about incidents including marijuana and cocaine-based drugs. In response, Spiegel has issued an apology expressing his remorse for the emails. “I’m sorry I wrote them at the time and I was jerk to have written them. This was aggravated when a series of leaked emails written by Spiegel began to circulate, showing a side of him that was sexist, racist, and homophobic. While one of the richest men under 30, Spiegel has quite the reputation. When mistakes are uncovered, apologise for them as quickly as you can In Stanford, he majored in product design. His co-founders, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown, were also fellow fraternity brothers, and it was in his dorm that Brown complained to Spiegel about a photograph he regretted sending.Ģ. He’s taken several classes that helped bolster his skills in product design, including a class at the Arts Center College of Design in Pasadena, and two continuing-education courses at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. While Spiegel didn’t complete his degree, he’s no slacker. “So I sat in the hot sun and listened to Cory Booker speak for what felt like quite a while, and I waved to my family who had travelled all the way to watch me not graduate,” he said. He did go through a graduation ceremony, as he revealed in a speech he gave at the USC Marshall Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony in 2015, but it was a “fake” graduation where the folder handed to him on stage was empty - an alternative Stanford allows students using the summer term to complete their degrees. Just short of 3 classes to graduate from Stanford University, he took off when Snapchat began to grow and decided to focus his efforts on the business. It’s probably well known that Evan Spiegel has joined some of the tech greats in the college dropout club. It’s not about the degree, it’s about the experience Here are the top 8 lessons you can learn from Evan Spiegel. At 25, he’s also the world’s youngest billionaire.
The CEO and co-founder of Snapchat shot to the limelight when the app became wildly popular, with 100 million daily users and reportedly 6 billion video views per day. To top it off, he has a reputation of loving the party life and his popularity with the ladies has cemented his place as the tech company director that everyone wants to talk about. If Silicon Valley had a bad boy icon, it would be Evan Spiegel. This article originally appeared on Vulcan Post.
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