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Snapchat CEO Reveals His Emails With Mark Zuckerberg But Told Forbes A Slightly Different Story
Lately, the press hasn't been kind to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel.
He's been portrayed as a brute who screwed over a former friend to found Snapchat. There's a profile that paints him as a stuck-up brat. And people are angry he hasn't apologized to the 4.6 million users whose accounts were hacked on Snapchat.
Today, Forbes has a feature article on Snapchat and the intro plays right into Spiegel's negative profile:
According to Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg emailed Evan Spiegel to speak, and Spiegel gave a disrespectful response :
"Mark Zuckerberg, the richest twenty something in history, reached out to Snapchat's Evan Spiegel…with an invitation, delivered to his personal email account: Come to Menlo Park and Let's get to know each other. Spiegel…responded to his role model thusly: I'm happy to meet you… if you come to me."
Spiegel's response sounds arrogant. What no-name startup founder tells a CEO worth $20 billion to fly to him?
But in a tweet to Business Insider, Spiegel refuted the Forbes report, saying the email exchange between him and Zuckerberg was much more cordial.
He even provided a screenshots of the emails:
Evan Spiegel
Evan Spiegel
But those emails don't explain why Forbes got the intro of its story incorrect. It turns out, when Forbes interviewed Spiegel, Spiegel seemed to brag about giving Zuckerberg the cold shoulder.
In response to Spiegel's claims that he's not as arrogant as Forbes made him sound, Forbes posted the transcript of its interview with Spiegel. In the transcript, Spiegel told Forbes Zuckerberg came to L.A. for the meeting. Without knowing his exact tone, it's hard to say if he was boasting or not. But from Forbes' response ("that's awesome") it sounds like he might have been:
Forbes
So, now we have two transcripts. The first is the original email exchange between Zuckerberg and Spiegel. It's very cordial. The second is Spiegel's account of the exchange to Forbes.
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