61 Quotes by Evan Spiegel

When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.

Traditional social media, in the view of our company, has become a bit repetitive. It doesn't feel very good to be marketed to by your friends. Snapchat is different because it says, look, friends aren't valuable to you just because they can get you into a cool party.

Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it's fun.

There is real value in sharing moments that don't live forever.

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.

If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.