E van Spiegel is an American technology entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the parent company of the popular social media app Snapchat. While studying product design at Stanford University, he and his fraternity brothers, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown, developed the idea for an ephemeral messaging app where photos and messages would disappear after being viewed. This concept was a radical departure from the permanent nature of other social networks like Facebook.

Spiegel dropped out of Stanford to focus on the app, which launched as Snapchat in 2011. As CEO, he has been the company's visionary leader, guiding its product strategy and its focus on augmented reality and camera technology. The app's disappearing messages and playful photo filters resonated deeply with a young audience and fueled its rapid growth. He famously turned down a multi-billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook and instead took Snap public in a major IPO in 2017, making him one of the world's youngest public company CEOs and a multi-billionaire.