We interviewed the CEO of Snapchat

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Colin and Samir

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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On this episode of The Colin and Samir Show, we sit down with Snapchat founder and CEO, Evan Spiegel, for a deep dive into the evolution of social media, the future of technology, and the role of Snapchat in the creator economy. Evan shares his insights on the future of wearables like Spectacles, the TikTok ban, how social media shapes culture and politics, what it takes to build a product that connects people, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All of their concerns came true. Right? TikTok actually was able to influence the President of the United States. It was hypothetical. Now they're going to say it's not hypothetical anymore. Like we just saw that happen. We've seen so much AR. It feels early to be launching wearables. I think we should just have a lot more ambition for what computers are. Were they a big advertiser of yours? Huge. No way. What were you thinking at that time?
0:21.2	Clearly we weren't thinking. How much money can you make on Snap? We're in the middle of a pretty big
0:25.3	change on that. When I think about Snapchat, I think about competition and people copying Snapchat.
0:30.0	Were you like angry when stories hit Instagram? Um,
0:34.5	uh...
0:35.6	Today on the Collin and Samir Show, we are joined by Snapchat, founder and CEO Evan Spiegel.
0:46.4	We wanted to sit down with Evan, first of all, just to be able to talk to Evan Spiegel.
0:50.4	Like, it's super interesting.
0:51.8	But also to understand the lens of creators on Snap, to understand his
0:56.6	perspective on what's going on with TikTok, and to understand his perspective on where technology
1:02.0	is going. Like, are wearables real? Where does entertainment go? Where does communication go?
1:08.3	We also just ask him, how does it feel to have so many of
1:11.8	your ideas just blatantly copied? How does that feel as just a creative person as a founder?
1:17.8	Yeah. What's that like? So Evan is also from the Pacific Palisades, which is where I'm born and
1:23.7	raised as well, and where both of us were living, you know, up until recently until
1:28.1	the Palisades fire. So we started the conversation just reflecting on our community and what's
1:33.4	going on in Los Angeles right now. And then once the episode is over, Samir and I're going to be
1:38.2	back here and we're going to debrief a bit on what was said. So we hope you enjoy this episode with
1:43.0	the founder of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel.
1:46.0	Evan Spiegel, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. What a, what a time to be Los Angeles. Wow.
1:51.9	What a time, man. How are you guys doing? It's been up and down. It's been up and down.
1:57.8	You know, it's a prompt that you're given. Like, what would you do if your house burns down?
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