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Evan Spiegal was born on June 4th, 1990, in Los Angelos, California. He was raised an Episcopalian by his parents John W Spiegel and Mellissa Ann Thomas. As a child, he was fascinated by technology and was said to have been a very creative child. He attended the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences. He also took an internship with Redbull before going to college.
Spiegel was reportedly bullied in school from a young age. "I was a pretty nerdy kid and shy through most of school," Spiegel said in an interview with the Palisadian-Post. "I was best friends with my computer teacher and built my own PC by the time I was in sixth grade." When Spiegel turned 16 and got his driver's license, his parents gave him a new Cadillac Escalade. Less than a year later, his parents announced they were getting divorced, and Spiegel went to live with his father full-time during his senior year of high school. Around this time, Spiegel landed a marketing internship with Red Bull, during which he reportedly racked up expenses and held several parties at his father's home. According to LA Weekly, Spiegel's father forced him to instate a budget, and Spiegel asked for his discipline to be rewarded with a $75,000 BMW 550i. After his dad refused, Spiegel moved back in with his mom, who leased him the BMW.
He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica. Spiegel took design classes at the Otis College of Art and Design while still in high school and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena the summer before entering Stanford.
Spiegel went on to study product design at Stanford University, his father's alma mater. A friend of the family let him sit in on a graduate-level class on entrepreneurship and venture capital, where he heard talks from tech luminaries like Google CEO Eric Schmidt and YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley. Spiegel befriended Intuit cofounder Scott Cook after he gave a talk at one of those classes. Spiegel begged him for a job, and Cook ended up letting him work on a product that Intuit planned to release in India. This experience reportedly inspired Spiegel to launch his own project, and Cook later became an early Snapchat investor.
While at Stanford he joined a fraternity where he would meet many important people that would later help him create Snapchat. One example of this is he met the future CTO if snapchat Bobby Murphy. He would collaborate with Bobby Murphy on other projects before Snapchat like a Stanford admissions site called future freshmen. Spiegel got the idea for Snapchat when another member of the Kappa sigma fraternity said he wished there was a way to send an image that would delete itself. The next summer he, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown began working on Snapchat from his home. Next they released an early version called Picabioo. Then with Brown no longer part of the project they renamed it Snapchat. By the following April there were already 100,000 users where, so Spiegel dropped out of Stanford a few weeks before graduation.