Category: evan spiegel

Snap’s first diversity report shows an overwhelmingly white workforce

[ad_1] According to the report released today, Snap is overwhelmingly staffed by white men. Women made up 32.9 percent of Snap’s global workforce in 2019, less than a single point increase from the year before with women making up less than a quarter of Director level employees and only 30 percent of VP-level positions. Despite […]

Snapchat stops promoting Trump’s account due to his tweets

[ad_1] A Snap spokesperson said the company made the decision over the weekend in response to tweets from the president that threatened protestors with “the most vicious dogs and ominous weapons, I have ever seen.” The Trump campaign is quite active on Snapchat and spends a significant amount on advertising in the app. Ads will […]

Snapchat users surge amid coronavirus pandemic

[ad_1] Snapchat just reported its best growth in a long time: the app added 11 million new users this quarter $SNAP pic.twitter.com/v6jmnLuYhS — Karissa Bell (@karissabe) April 21, 2020 But not all of Snapchat’s growth is due to the pandemic. “While we observed higher engagement in the final weeks of the quarter, as many in […]

Series will give Snap’s founding story the ‘Social Network’ treatment

[ad_1] According to The Hollywood Reporter, the script depicts Spiegel as a hard partier in his college days who elbowed out one of the app’s original programmers, replacing her with a male counterpart. One part of the script even shows the Snap chief exchanging text messages with Taylor Swift. “Hamptons?” the singer asked in the […]