Name
Bobby Murphy
Bobby Murphy
Venice, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University
United States
Snap
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Snapchat, Self Made
$3,900,000,000
1116
2
#1116 Billionaires 2019
#354 Forbes 400 2018
Bobby Murphy cofounded social media app Snapchat, which debuted as Snap Inc. on the New York Stock Exchange in March 2017.Snapchat lets users share disappearing messages or photos and videos with captions, masks and filters.Most of Snapchat's 191 million daily users are between the ages of 18 and 34.Murphy, Snap's Chief Technology Officer, built Snapchat with his Stanford University fraternity brother Evan Spiegel.Snap launched video-capturing sunglasses called Spectacles in 2016. After initial buzz, the product failed to take off.
In February 2017, Murphy and Spiegel created a foundation for education and the arts. They plan to donate up to 13,000,000 Class A shares to the nonprofit by 2027.
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