How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story

Billy Gallagher, a tech writer, takes us inside the development of one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups in How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars. Snapchat began as a simple yearning for pictures to vanish as Stanford juniors Reggie Brown and Evan Spiegel dealt with regrets about photos they had sent. Brown lost his interest in the company after an epic fight between best friends, and Spiegel went on to make a name for himself as a visionary.

In 2013 Evan Spiegel, the brash CEO of the social network Snapchat, and his co-founder Bobby Murphy stunned the press when they walked away from a three-billion-dollar acquisition offer from Facebook, a good decision in hindsight given their company's current value of over $15 billion.

Author: Billy Gallagher

Type: Hardcover