Evan Spiegel - Electronic Gurudev

Snapchat, the next-big-thing in social media after Facebook and Instagram, had gotten itself into trouble after the alleged comment by CEO Evan Spiegel who said that the ‘app is for rich people’ and hence, they don’t want to expand to poor countries such as India and Spain. This comment has outraged users in India resulting in them not only uninstalling the app but also giving it a single-star rating both on Apple app store and Google play store. However, latest rating stats from both Apple app store and Google play store for Snapchat indicates that negative reviews/ratings might have been removed by respective stores. Although at the moment reason behind the action is not yet confirmed. However, it definitely raises questions on sanctity of existing ratings, users post on these stores. ...

A Snapchat ex-employee has alleged that the company’s CEO Evan Spiegel was not interested in expanding the business in ‘poor countries like India’ as recently as 2015. American website Variety quoted the former employee Anthony Pompliano as saying that Spiegel told him this during a meeting in 2015. “This app is only for rich people,” Spiegel said, according to Pompliano. “I don’t want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain.” And this, at a time when Silicon Valley giants such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Tesla are looking to generate new revenue streams from India by offering innovative services and offline apps. India is currently going through a mobile and data revolution. It is not only the second largest smartphone market in the world but also the faste...

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Snapchat CEO said app is not for ‘poor countries like India’