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TechCheck+ Exclusive: SNAP CEO Evan Siegel 2/16/23

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CNBC

Management, Cnbc, Tech, Faang, Investing, Business, Disruptors, Technology

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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CNBC’s Julia Boorstin sits down with SNAP CEO Evan Siegel to discuss the increase in active users and the company’s roadmap for how it will exceed 1 billion users. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Evan, thanks so much for joining us here today at your headquarters on the heels of

0:05.8

this investor day. We really appreciate it.

0:08.0

Julia, thanks so much for having me. It's great to be here. So I want to talk

0:10.6

first of all about these user targets.

0:13.8

750 million now, a billion in the next two to three years.

0:17.5

There's so much competition for consumers time right now.

0:20.6

Tic-Tock, first and foremost, among your rivals. What makes you confident

0:24.8

you're going to hit that 1 billion number? When you think about the core of our

0:28.1

service, it's really about visual communication between friends and family and

0:32.1

that's what has continued to drive our growth

0:34.4

over time. Snapchat opens up into the camera where people can choose from all sorts of

0:38.4

augmented reality lenses to express themselves and share those with friends and

0:42.2

family and ultimately what we've seen over the last 11 express themselves and share those with friends and family.

0:42.8

And ultimately what we've seen over the last 11 years or so of building our business is that

0:47.2

communication with friends and family is something that brings a lot of joy into people's lives

0:51.7

and that they really like to do frequently.

0:53.8

We shared today that in the United States, for example, people open Snapchat approximately

0:58.1

40 times a day on average and that's really because they like to talk with their friends and

1:03.4

families so I think that communication especially visual

1:06.3

communication with friends and family is going to continue to be a big driver of

1:09.5

our growth. So there are two pieces of this that you're focused on. One is

1:12.1

the engagement and the other is the monetization.

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