Bobby Murphy
$1.9B
Born
Jul 19, 1988
Age
37
Source of Wealth
Snapchat
Residence
Venice, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Single
Children
0
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University
- Bobby Murphy cofounded Snapchat, the social media app popular with American teens.
- Snapchat's 432 million users share disappearing messages or photos and videos with captions, masks and filters.
- Murphy, Snap's chief technology officer, built Snapchat with his Stanford University fraternity brother Evan Spiegel.
- Murphy and Spiegel jointly own about a quarter of Snap but have voting shares that give them control over the board.
- The son of California state employees, one of whom emigrated from the Philippines, Murphy grew up in Berkeley, California.
- Murphy has spent more than $70 million buying a string of homes in beach towns in the Los Angeles area.
- Before cofounding Snap, Murphy worked at Revel, a startup in San Francisco that was building management software for restaurants.
- Murphy was two years older than cofounder Spiegel when they met at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at Stanford.
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