When Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel got snapped at

No one should be under-estimated, as evidenced by a comment thread on TechCrunch from about four years ago.

Then, a founder who raised $10 million in one year wrote a guest post. One of the first comments on the article was written by a user named “Evan Spiegel.” Evan Spiegel is the co-founder of Snapchat, a multi-billion- dollar messaging app.


Then, Spiegel was still in school and was working on a venture that turned into Snapchat, Future Freshman. The former was a failed attempt to help students with college applications.

“I’m a Stanford student and I started www.future-freshman.com with a classmate for $2500 (Rs 1.5 lakh) of my own money,” Spiegel wrote.

It took three years for someone to respond to Spiegel’s comment. The person still didn’t know who Evan Spiegel was: “Still under construction... wonder if you ever launched after 3 years,” the person said. The rest of the thread defended Spiegel’s work.