Founder Stories

Evan Thomas Spiegel is an American businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of the American social media company Snap Inc., which he created with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University.

He is a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia, later renamed Fandom.

Ben Silbermann is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Pinterest, a social media network and self-described 'visual discovery engine,' which lets users organize images, links, recipes and other things.

Chad Meredith Hurley is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer of YouTube. He also co-founded MixBit.

Logan D. Green is the co-founder and CEO of Lyft, which he founded with John Zimmer in 2012. Lyft grew out of Zimride, a ride share company previously founded by Green and Zimmer in 2007.

Kevin Systrom co-founded Instagram, the world's largest photo sharing website, along with Mike Krieger. Systrom was included on the list of America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 2016.