What Evan Spiegel thinks about venture capital

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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 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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1. 12 Apr 2026

   Our readingA cash-flowing core business can fund long-term speculative R&D in a way no venture capitalist would ever support.

   Their wordsWe're taking a lot of that core cash flow from Snapchat and using it to reinvest in winning this future of computing. And what's very unique about Snapchat is we've been able to do that now for, you know, we've invested in glasses for 12 years. We've been able to very consistently invest in a way that no VC would ever in a million years support.

   ↗Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Companyyoutube.com 33rd of 35 in this recording