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Cars bring me sheer joy.
Ephemeral should be the default.
If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.
It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.
We probably release 1% of the products that we are working on.
There is real value in sharing moments that don't live forever.
Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing.
I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.
I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.
We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.
More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.
If we take a step back and look at what Snapchat is, it all starts with the camera.
I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.
It's important to be thoughtful and mindful about the things you say to other people.
I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.
In tech in particular, everyone is so serious all the time and has these grand visions.
In the future, we'd like to support upcoming artists, people that are trying to be actors.
We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out.
The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.
I snap with my mom. It was a great way for me to see my dog when I was in college. We send selfies, too.
When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.
When we face uncertainty, we encourage everyone to press forward and believe in the values of the product.
It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.
TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.
It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.
I text nonstop, and I love emoji. I'm also on the phone quite a bit for work - probably more than 10 calls per day.
We no longer have to capture the 'real world' and recreate it online. We simply live and communicate at the same time.
One of the things I'm trying to get better at is apologizing when I make mistakes. That's been a big priority of mine.
The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.
We don't want to own people's photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.
People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.
It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.
Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.
When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.
Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.
We are not advertising ourselves as a secure platform. It's a communication platform. It's not our job to police the world or Snapchat of jerks.
Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.
Someone will always have an opinion about you. Whatever you do won't ever be enough. So find something important to you. Find something that you love.
Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it's fun.
Having been bullied growing up, it's something that's really near and dear to my heart. You probably won't have many friends on Snapchat if you're being a jerk.
We're kind of looking at a future where people acknowledge the hybridization of digital and analog, and appreciate and understand that they both affect each other.
I feel like I'm finally learning how to use Twitter, and Tweetbot has been a huge part of that. The interface is awesome, and it lets me easily manage two accounts at once.
The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go.
The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.
The social marketing teams of big companies will always figure out a way to advertise on Snapchat. I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.
Generally speaking, the people who come to work at Snapchat believe in personal growth. It's part of why Snapchat's stories are ephemeral, because you will be a different person tomorrow.
We built our business on creativity, and we're going to have to go through an education process for the next five years to explain to people how our users and that creativity creates value.
For Snapchat, the closer we can get to 'I want to talk to you' - that emotion of wanting to see you and then seeing you - the better and better our product and our view of the world will be.
I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.
I don't want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive - we don't look at something and say, 'Let's disrupt that.' It's always about how we can evolve this and make this better.