Evan Spiegel on Snap's Past, Present, and Future

About this episode

Imran Khan interviews Evan Spiegel about Snap's journey and future innovations.

In this episode of The Khanversation with Imran Khan, Imran sits down with Evan Spiegel, co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc for a conversation spanning Snapchat's early prototyping at Stanford to wearable technology and the future of computing. Evan reflects on pioneering well-known products, such as Stories and augmented reality (AR) Lenses, and explains his vision for Spectacles, Snap’s AR-powered glasses, to make computing more human. He also offers candid insights on finding inspiration, thinking long term, and staying true to a vision.

People in this episode

Host: Imran Khan

Guest: Evan Spiegel

Topics covered

• Snapchat history
• augmented reality
• wearable technology
• long-term vision
• inspiration

Keywords

• Snap Inc
• Evan Spiegel
• Snapchat
• augmented reality
• wearable technology
• Spectacles
• Stories

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Snap Inc

Products: Snapchat, Stories, augmented reality (AR) Lenses, Spectacles

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