# SNAP CEO EVAN SPIEGEL: How I Took a College Idea & Became the World's Youngest Billionaire Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737/snap-ceo-evan-spiegel-how-i-took-a-college-idea-became-the-world-s-youngest-billionaire Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737/snap-ceo-evan-spiegel-how-i-took-a-college-idea-became-the-world-s-youngest-billionaire.md Podcast: [Great Company with Jamie Laing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737) Published: 2026-07-09T23:03:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/great-company/episodes/evan-spiegel Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65d737dfdc02e00016c413b2/e/6a4f8023e0d7ba6b61da5f06/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737/episodes/snap-ceo-evan-spiegel-how-i-took-a-college-idea-became-the-world-s-youngest-billionaire Duration seconds: 3100 ## Resource Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and CEO of Snap, launched Snapchat in 2011 while he was still a student at Stanford University.  Since then, he’s built one of the biggest social platforms in the world, used by more than 400 million people every day.  Evan's idea has genuinely changed the way we communicate. So, I couldn’t wait to sit down with him for our first episode of Great Company Presents: Founders Friday mini-series.  In our conversation, Evan shares:  How the idea of Snapchat came about  The moment he decided to drop out of Stanford  The reality of becoming a billionaire at 25  How he balances fatherhood and entrepreneurship  Why Specs is the future of computing Evan is proof that every successful business starts with an idea and sometimes the biggest rewards come from having the courage to take a risk... Evan Spiegel is Great Company. If you enjoyed the show, you can also follow us:  Instagram- @greatcompanypodcast TikTok - @greatcompanypodcast  Jamie - @jamielaing And if you've got thoughts, questions and comments, you can email us at: greatcompany@jampotproductions.co.uk THE CREDITS Producers: Helen Burke  Assistant Producer: Issy Weeks-Hankins Video: Josh Bennett Senior Social Media Manager: Laura Coughlan Audio: Rafi Amsili Geovannetti Executive Producer: Ewan Newbigging-Lister Great Company is an original podcast from JamPot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737/episodes/snap-ceo-evan-spiegel-how-i-took-a-college-idea-became-the-world-s-youngest-billionaire/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-company-with-jamie-laing-6839737/snap-ceo-evan-spiegel-how-i-took-a-college-idea-became-the-world-s-youngest-billionaire.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.