Here's his response to the leak: https://twitter.com/evanspiegel/status/545308400829997056
On the other hand, perhaps Snapchat is making an unreasonable promise to their users (send data to someone else that will be auto-deleted) that is fundamentally impossible to enforce.
It depends on your point of view.
Ok closer read, because Sony Hack.
Wow, that is really sad.
The leaks to this point have showed him as obnoxious, careless etc. This one shows him as focused, driven and smart (the details don't really matter anymore and will likely be forgotten anyway). While I think most people who have experience dealing with the media probably assumed this was the case, now most people will see it without any surrounding PR.
Overall though probably won't sway things too much either way.
(Not that the media is always wrong, sometimes they're probably right, i.e. clinkle)
Are you suggesting that all this stuff about North Korea was a misdirect, and the real purpose of the Sony hack was to vaguely improve the reputation of Snapchat's CEO? Or perhaps that Snapchat had advanced knowledge of the hack and Evan Spiegel intentionally emailed the head of Sony at the strategically appropriate time?
WhatsApp is free text and group-chat done right. Snapchat is ephemeral pics and recently they've added text and and video (also self deleting). It's possible that Google could've bought Honeywell but not at the price they paid for Nest ($3 Bil) but it would've been pointless, google isn't interested in getting into the low-grade thermostat market, they want to be part of the "collecting info about you from devices you put in your home" market, so even though nest's first product was a thermostat, that's just incidental in Google's overall plans for the company.
How does the owner of a company that people use for swapping naked/drunk/silly photos expect to change the world? Snapchat could disappear over night and it wouldn't have much of an impact on anyone other than the people working there.
This guy sounded much more intelligent in his private memos. This crap sounds like a teenager's diary. So many "feels" and "hurts" and "angrys"...really seems like he's writing to a bunch of young teens.
I don't know how people work at companies like this. Between this and Marissa Mayer's children's book reading at an all employee meeting, I'd get fired twice for laughing out loud and calling the CEO of the company a blabbering idiot.
Anyone care to unravel the mystery of teen mystery PR speak?
"Social" apps are driven by a small number of trend driven, high sociability, sexually active females in the range of 16ish to 25ish.
If you get them, everybody else will flow to your "service" (other girls will follow the trendsetters--guys will follow the girls). It is no accident that SnapChat got popular from sending naked selfies.