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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nEvan Spiegel co-founded Snap and has been its chief executive and a board member since May 2012. He proposed the ephemeral messaging app that became Snapchat as a Stanford product design class project in 2011. He holds a BS in product design engineering from Stanford and has sat on the board of KKR.\n\n- X: https://x.com/evanspiegel\n\n## What Evan builds\n\n- [Snapchat Ads API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snapchat-ads.md), graded D, 50.5/100, in Advertising \u0026 campaign operations. Snap's Ads API creates and manages Snapchat campaigns, ad squads, ads, creatives and audiences and returns performance statistics. Agents call REST endpoints at adsapi.snapchat.com/v1 with a member's OAuth token, or read account data through the read-only Ads MCP server. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Robbie Holmes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/robbie-holmes/), Director of Engineering, Business Experience\n- [Robert Murphy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/robert-murphy/), Co-founder and CTO\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Evan Spiegel?\n\nEvan Spiegel co-founded Snap and has been its chief executive and a board member since May 2012. He proposed the ephemeral messaging app that became Snapchat as a Stanford product design class project in 2011. He holds a BS in product design engineering from Stanford and has sat on the board of KKR.\n\n### What does Snap Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Snapchat Ads API from Snap Inc.. Snap's Ads API creates and manages Snapchat campaigns, ad squads, ads, creatives and audiences and returns performance statistics. Agents call REST endpoints at adsapi.snapchat.com/v1 with a member's OAuth token, or read account data through the read-only Ads MCP server.\n\n### How are Evan's tools graded?\n\nSnapchat Ads API is graded D, 50.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwholmes\n- https://investor.snap.com/governance/leadership-team/default.aspx\n- https://x.com/evanspiegel\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/snap-inc-co\n- https://x.com/Snap\n- https://www.snap.com/\n- https://businesshelp.snapchat.com/s/article/chat?language=en_GB\n- https://developers.snap.com/marketing-api/home\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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