Snap CEO: Building Snapchat, AR Glasses and the Future of Communication
In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen
Norges Bank Investment Management
4.7 • 236 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Nicolai Tangen speaks with Evan Spiegel, co-founder and CEO of Snap, the company behind Snapchat. Evan reflects on building Snapchat from a Stanford dorm room idea into a platform used by nearly a billion people worldwide. They discuss why Evan turned down a $3 billion offer from Mark Zuckerberg, Snap's bold bet on augmented reality glasses, and how AI is transforming software development from the inside out. Evan also shares his leadership philosophy, built around kindness, creativity, and long-term thinking. Don't miss this conversation with one of Silicon Valley's most unconventional builders.
In Good Company is hosted by Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management. New full episodes every Wednesday, and don't miss our Highlight episodes every Friday.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, I'm Nicola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian sovereign-wenth Fund. |
| 0:05.0 | And today, I'm really thrilled. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm here with Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and CEO of Snap, the company behind the very popular Snapchat. |
| 0:13.4 | Now, it's used by nearly a billion people every day. |
| 0:16.9 | He was 22 years old, turned down a $3 billion offer from Mark Zuckerberg, and has continued to build a company, which, by the way, in Norway, of all places, was one of your first really, really big market. |
| 0:29.0 | So, fantastic to have you here. |
| 0:30.6 | Thanks so much, Nicole. |
| 0:31.4 | It's great to be on the show. |
| 0:32.9 | And, yeah, we now reach more than 3 million Norwegians. |
| 0:35.3 | So very proud to serve the Norwegian people. |
| 0:47.9 | Now, it started as an idea that most people thought was like totally ridiculous, |
| 0:53.6 | a photo that disappears just after you look at it. |
| 0:55.9 | So where the heck did that idea come from? |
| 0:59.4 | Well, Bobby and I had grown up with social media. |
| 1:01.9 | And on social media, everything was saved forever. |
| 1:04.1 | It was public. |
| 1:04.8 | It was like a big competition to see how many friends you had or likes you could get on your photos. |
| 1:09.0 | And so it meant that people were only posting pretty and perfect moments, not, you know, the full set of, full set of emotions or |
| 1:16.4 | full set of experiences they have that, you know, are really important to relationships. So I think |
| 1:21.0 | the most important thing Snapchat did was create a new way of communicating with visual messaging. |
| 1:25.7 | That was really the foundation of the service. Now, today, |
| 1:28.6 | it's diversified across a map that lets you see what your friends are up to or augmented reality |
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