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Evan Spiegel

What Evan Spiegel thinks about management

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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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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Evan Spiegel has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingLarge, structured organizations become risk-averse because everyone inside them is optimizing for the next promotion.

    Their wordsas soon as you have an organization that's very large and very structured like that, uh people become very focused on getting a promotion, right? Getting, you know, into the next step of the hierarchy. And that means that all of a sudden, uh they become a lot more risk-averse.

    ↗How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)youtube.com 10th of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingA company needs both a flat inventive team and a large operational one, and the leader's real job is the relationship between them.

    Their wordsthe companies that are very successful actually have both types of organizations inside their company. And that the leaders of the organization are the ones who are responsible for creating a healthy, functioning relationship between the two types of organizations.

    ↗How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)youtube.com 11th of 22 in this recording

  5. Our readingStaying close to your customer and your product is the most important thing any leader can do, in any company, not only a consumer one.

    Their wordsstaying close to your customer, staying close to the product and the way that it's serving your customer is the fundamentally most important thing you could possibly do.

    ↗How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)youtube.com 17th of 22 in this recording