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Evan Spiegel is the CEO of Snapchat, the temporary photo messaging company he cofounded with Bobby Murphy in 2011. The company, which was valued at $10 billion in 2014, was reported in February to have received offers to nearly double that valuation to $19 billion. In December, Spiegel earned rave reviews from tech peers and press for his business acumen after some emails written by the young CEO were made public in the fallout from a major hack of Sony Entertainment. After growing up comfortably in the Los Angeles area, Spiegel studied product design at Stanford University and met Murphy, who was two years ahead of him and studying math, at the Kappa Sigma frat house.
