What Evan Spiegel thinks about investing

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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. 12 Apr 2026

   Our readingTrying to control everything burns you out, so pick early the few strategic points where doing things differently creates a unique customer experience.

   Their wordsEssentially, like you're going to burn yourself out if you try to control everything, right? So it's really important to identify very early on, like where are the strategic points where you can create a totally unique customer experience by really investing in doing things differently?

   ↗Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Companyyoutube.com 24th of 35 in this recording