在前幾年，創(chuàng)辦Facebook的馬克·扎克伯格一直獨占世界最年輕億萬富翁的寶座。然而今年，扎克伯格被Snapchat創(chuàng)始人艾文·斯皮格爾取代。
近日，Snapchat照片分享應用市值已經(jīng)超過100億美元，其創(chuàng)始人斯皮格爾的凈資產(chǎn)也達到15億美元，成為新晉世界最年輕億萬富翁，年僅24歲。類似Facebook初創(chuàng)階段，斯皮格爾所創(chuàng)辦的Snapchat照片分享應用同樣免費，并不創(chuàng)收。但是其創(chuàng)收前景和空間則足以引來眾多投資者的投資。
Snapchat是一款手機通訊軟件，最大的特色就是“閱后即焚”，訊息會在傳出的10秒后自動焚毀，不會留下任何記錄，而該軟件也可分享訊息、照片、影片，主要的使用者多半是歐美國家的年輕人。
Facebook與Google都曾向Snapchat提出30億與40億美元的高價收購案，但卻都遭到拒絕。據(jù)數(shù)據(jù)顯示，Snapchat在美國18歲到34歲的人群中，使用率已高達33%，目前更在美國社群軟件中排行第三，是一款受矚目的新興產(chǎn)品。（中國進出口網(wǎng)）
In previous years, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, was the world's youngest billionaire. But this year, Zuckerberg is replaced by Irwin Spiegel, founder of Snapchat.
Recently, Snapchat photo sharing application market value has more than 10 billion US dollars, the net assets of Spiegel, founder of Snapchat reaches $1.5 billion, thus Spiegel, just at 24, becomes the world's youngest billionaire. Similar to Facebook infancy, photo sharing application is for free, but its revenue outlook and space attract the investment of many investors.
Snapchat is a mobile communication software, the biggest feature is the "Burn After Reading", the message will be automatically burned in the following 10 seconds, leaving no records, and the software is also available to share information, photos and videos, and its main users are mostly young people from European and American countries.
Facebook wants to make acquisition of Snapchat at the price of $3 billion, and Google give the price of $4 billion, but both of them were refused. According to statistics, among the people aged 18 to 34, the app utilization rate reaches 33%. As a a high-profile new product, the app ranks third among US social software.