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By Billy Gallagher

ISBN-10: 0753557584

ISBN-13: 9780753557587

ISBN-10: 1250108616

ISBN-13: 9781250108616

In 2013 Evan Spiegel, the brash CEO of the social community Snapchat, and his co-founder Bobby Murphy surprised the clicking once they walked clear of a three-billion-dollar provide from fb: how may perhaps an app children use to textual content soiled photographs dream of a better valuation? was once this hubris, or genius?

In How to show Down one billion Dollars, tech journalist Billy Gallagher takes us contained in the upward push of 1 of Silicon Valley’s preferred start-ups. Snapchat all started as a late-night dorm room revelation, the brainchild of Stanford English significant Reggie Brown who was once nursing regrets approximately images he had despatched. After an epic feud among top acquaintances, Brown misplaced the corporate to Spiegel, who has long past directly to make a reputation for himself as a visionary?if ruthless?CEO worthy billions, associated with celebrities like Taylor quick and his fiancée, Miranda Kerr.

A fellow Stanford undergrad and fraternity brother of the company’s founding trio, Billy Gallagher has coated Snapchat from the beginning. His within account bargains an interesting journey in the course of the extra and drama of the hazy early days with a qualified perception into the demanding situations Snapchat faces because it transitions from a playful app to at least one of the tech industry’s preeminent public businesses. within the culture of serious enterprise narratives, How to show Down one thousand million Dollars bargains the definitive account of a firm whose target isn't any below to remake the way forward for entertainment.

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