Evan SpiegelEvan Spiegel

Co-founded Snapchat at Stanford in 2011 and famously turned down Facebook's $3B offer at 23. Beyond the app, he has spent a decade and billions on AR hardware — from the original Spectacles to the 2024 developer Specs — betting that lightweight see-through glasses, not headsets, are the next computing platform. Snap has shipped five generations of AR eyewear, longer than any consumer rival.