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#22 How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story

Founders

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Mark Zuckerberg's First Move on Snapchat

Snapchat founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy were approached by Mark Zuckerberg in November. The Facebook billionaire asked them to meet with him at his Los Angeles apartment. He showed the pair a new app called Polk, which was an exact replica of Snapchat's disappearing photos and videos. It even stole Snapchat's user interface for recording video. But there was nothing fun about Polk; this was a show of might from Zuckerberg up north.

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