Two years ago, Apple Spiegel obsessing over sex and dot.com money and beer soaked frat boys had only one . This week , Snapchat offered the 23 -year-old co-founder large - big - small smart phone app that creates wealth for the company .
Instead of dancing at sunset , Spiegel Facebook ( FB ) and $ 3 billion offer from Google , then (GOOG) by turning down a bid of $ 4 billion , was unimaginable . Almost no assets , no income and a mountain of legal problems with running a company fleeing a college , Spiegel Snapchat " next big thing" beyond insulting and it can become an industry unto itself 'm betting 's .
Now there is no going back . Date at one of the most brilliant businessmen , or as either a delusional fool would paint View Spiegel .
There is no in between with him . Boyishly handsome child of privilege surrounding the unfolding story strange irony Snapchat not exactly a date that is based on the idea of leaving . So-called "sext" messages seen as a way to send the wrong hands destroy themselves before , Snapchat not actually posses Facebook and Google have that works great . Snapchat knows anything about their customers . This month receive millions each within seconds from a third party server will send the images will be erased .
What Snapchat that young people are already sick with Facebook explosive growth . Snapchat is sexy and subversive . It's good . This is not Facebook is everything. Spiegel Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google , Twitter or perhaps even think clearly may be the reason that soon it will come back with a bigger offer .
How to start
Spiegel After leaving school he moved in with his father out of the app to build and sustain funding for the project has garnered the company used some of $ 70 million . In a recent interview with The Associated Press , Spiegel came to be controversial company who recounted:
" A friend of mine has a picture (sending regretted .) And so we bummed about missing text, image , video and other space programs were started to see some of . , and they had a really hard time because there 's a lot of stigma around destroying things , but Bobby ( Bobby Murphy Snapchat chief technology officer and co-founder ) and the prototype construction and start using itwere able to do a good job . "
For the friends and family in high school to build more complex Web sites before " developing simulators and video game emulators " and Snapchat website according to his bio , Spiegel in software development dipped fingers . Young tech hot shot, now President Obama's Council on Technology and Media serves his degree at Stanford and apparently has ended .
Tech gossip site Valleywag and others brainstorming ways to reduce their community incriminating sext messaging with friends while bad frat boy who stumbled into a fortune as defined Spiegel . Spiegel less charitable version of events and more now credited as co-founder Bobby Murphy from Reggie Brown was born "Picaboo" Snapchat , a company has already adapted .
Brown, Murphy and former Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers Spiegel , Los Angeles Superior Court has filed suit against the company . The Facebook Snapchat by $ 3 billion cash offer was rejected , it was reported Wednesday evening her case became even higher stakes . By Thursday afternoon , GigaOm, Om Malik, the founder of the Spiegel nearly 4 billion dollars from Google that Twitter was rejected (TWTR) reported by .
New insights
Snapchat 's Web site , according to the company's infrastructure and unopened they are viewed and then deleted unless Google's cloud computing service, App Engine , but images are stored . Snapchat more than 350 million claims photos were sent in September , but the company has reliable information to users . Currently , Snapchat most solid asset a cute icon , is a great app and lawsuits .
View Spiegel your little app for the company to turn down an offer of $ 4 billion for the development of hypertension or not ? Yahoo sees it as interactive editor Phil Pearlman , Spiegel latest creation , no holds barred insight into the tech titan . "He's a great guy, a super young guy, and my impression is that he has to get it ," Pearlman offers related video .
As for the above case , Pearlman notes that " The story of Facebook is really interesting parallel with a cunning approach . Cutthroat or a need for this kind of warrior mentality . "
Spiegel Zuckerberg invented Facebook 's Winklevoss twins fighting off claims case is being considered by Brown calls it , Snapchat that Francis 's other legal problems , former King of the Girls Gone Wild empire , a whiff of a lot creepier entrepreneurs Close turn . More like Girls Gone Wild , Snapchat claims by trafficking in illegal from the beginning has been surrounded . Francis cameras flashing behavior among adult women and a great business was selling videos and DVDs . In return for their consent , Francis , a hat or t-shirt as little as women will play .
Finally, a series of increasingly bizarre lawsuits filed for bankruptcy earlier this year in the business, destroyed . He and Zuckerberg, Francis, or proves to be completely different , even if the data could not seem less relevant Spiegel . Perhaps the most coveted young audience appeal Snapchat crazy for Facebook, Google or Twitter larger bids for the company will come around with that makes it possible . Better yet, high-profile venture capital backer Snapchat quality reputation and Francis could only dream veneer which gives legal cover .
Spiegel straight out of central casting .. It is a grand version of the American dream .
Or at least a version of it . Pearlman sizzle sees the matter . " The media is sellable as possible so that things are ready , " he concluded .
However, he is superb , or is not , Spiegel Snapchat world is convinced that a better mousetrap social network . The only question is put to sleep on their door which looks like .
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