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Bobby Murphy and Stanford University buddy Evan Spiegel together founded mobile app Snapchat. The company was valued in its latest investment round at $10 billion, with reports in February of 2015 that the company had received new funding offers at an eye-popping valuation of $19 billion. Forbes estimates that Murphy has a stake of at least 15%. He was two years older than cofounder Spiegel when they met at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at Stanford in 2010, but the senior in mathematics and computational science with a placid demeanor meshed well with Spiegel’s brasher personality.
