The untold story of Snapchat what make millionaires and a Ghost that Haunts Mark Zuckerberg part one

 The birthday of the app Snapchat.

When the bad luck stuck with Evan Spiegel. His business idea which is called Future Freshman had failed, and his girlfriend of two years had just broken up with him. But suddenly his friend Reggie came into his room with an idea. A way of sending photos that disappear.

Evan was immediately excited and said he thought it was a million-dollar idea. But he was wrong that was a multi-billion-dollar idea. The driving force behind it was exactly what you might expect. The guys wanted a way to send nudes without having a permanent copy saved. They also figured girls would be more likely to send them photos if the pictures disappeared afterward. However, as Evan thought about the idea more, he realized its potential went far beyond that. Evan had always disliked that on the internet everything felt permanent; every silly message you wrote, every drunken picture, all of it was out there for good and could come back to haunt you.

But a disappearing photo app would allow people to share things more freely without any worry. So, Evan and Reggie were eager to start this photo-sharing app together and agreed to split everything in half. But then they realized neither of them could code well enough to build the app, so they began trying to find someone to work with.

Several people turned them down, either because they were too busy or didn’t get the point of the app. But eventually, Evan managed to convince a friend of his called Bobby to help them, so he coded day and night to help build a working prototype, which they originally named Picaboo. They sent it to some friends, who used the app a surprising high amount, proving the app had potential.

Soon afterward, Stanford had an event where students could pitch their business ideas to investors, so Evan presented their new app. However, none of the investors were remotely interested. An app where the photos don’t save?

If anything it felt like a step backward, and certainly not something they wanted to invest money into. Little did the investors know they’d just missed an opportunity to make billions of dollars. Meanwhile, the Stanford teaching assistant who had organized the event was horrified, and pulled Evan aside to ask him: ‘Have you created a sexting app?

And to make things worse, Evan then received a cease and desist letter from a phone book company that already had the name Picaboo. So they had to come up with a new name. They decided on Snapchat, a combination of snapping a photo and chatting with friends. But it’s fair to say it had been a rough start for the company. The only real users they had were their friends, and nobody wanted to invest. At that moment, it was almost impossible to imagine that in less than 2 years, Facebook would try to buy their app for 3 billion dollars…

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