What Evan Spiegel thinks about ideas vs execution
Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Evan Spiegel has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThe hard part is not having a vision of the future, which often seems obvious, but delivering it.
Their wordsSo, I think, you know, the hard part is not necessarily having the vision for the future, and oftentimes it just seems very obvious. The hard part is delivering it, right, getting there.
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