What Evan Spiegel thinks about optimism

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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 readingThe early-2010s belief that everyone would share everything openly was wrong about what people actually want.

   Their wordsRemember Mark Zuckerberg being like, the world's going to be open and connected. Everyone's going to share everything. Like what? Like, and it was just so wrong in terms of the direction of the world and like what people actually want it.

   ↗Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Companyyoutube.com 32nd of 35 in this recording