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Snap: Evan Spiegel

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are contacted by Facebook. And you and Bobby. Go meet with Mark Zuckerberg. What do you remember about that meeting? Um

We were pretty nervous. He was telling us about working on a new poke app, which ultimately ended up being a copycat of Snapchat at the time. Did he say? Do you guys wanna collaborate at that time? I don't remember the exact substance of the Don't remember of course you remember. You were twenty two. It must have been incredible to be asked to come even'cause it's a validation of what you guys were building. That's not how it felt at the time. It felt like oh no, there's a really big company that everyone's been warning us about, you know, and has said they're working on something similar.

We knew that a copycat product was coming. Yeah, and then I think that Christmas it did. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. they built. I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Evan Spiegel turned disappearing photo messages into Snap.

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