Robert Cornelius Murphy (born July 19, 1988) is an American Internet entrepreneur and software engineer. He is the co-founder and the CTO of the American multinational technology company Snap Inc., which he created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University.
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| Born | July 19, 1988 Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Stanford University, (BS) |
| Known for | Co-founder of Snap Inc. (since 2016) Co-founder of Snapchat (since 2011) |
| Title | CTO of Snap Inc. |
| Spouse | Kelsey Bateman |
He was named as one of the 100 most influential people in 2014 by Time. In 2015, Murphy was first listed and became the second-youngest billionaire in the world by Forbes.
Early life
editMurphy was born on July 19, 1988,[1] in Berkeley, California.[2] His father is an Irish-American and his mother is a first-generation Filipino-American.[3]
Murphy grew up in Berkeley, California and was educated at the School of the Madeleine, a private Roman Catholic grade school there. He received his secondary education at Saint Mary's College High School, also a private Catholic high school in Berkeley.[4]
Education
editMurphy graduated in 2010 from Stanford University in Stanford, California, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematical and computational science.[5] He was also a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity along with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown.[6][7]
Career
Murphy was recruited by Spiegel after they finished working on a failed startup called Future Freshman, a website that helped high school kids get advice when applying to colleges.[5][8] In 2011, Murphy co-founded a disappearing-image messaging app called Picaboo. The name was later changed to Snapchat.[9][10] After graduating from Stanford, Murphy spent a year working as a software engineer at Revel Systems (an iPad point of sale system for restaurants). Until Snapchat could secure venture capital funding, he used half of his paycheck to cover the cost of Snapchat's server bills.[11][12]
At Snapchat, Murphy has led the engineering and research teams.[12] Murphy has also worked with Snapchat's Snap Labs team, which produced Spectacles camera glasses in 2018.[13][14] At the time of Snapchat's IPO in 2017, Murphy and Spiegel held over 45% of the company's total stock. They also held over 70% of the voting power.[15]
In February 2017, Murphy and Spiegel pledged to donate up to 13,000,000 shares of Class A common stock to their newly created Snap Foundation, which will support the arts, education and youth non-profits, over the course of 15–20 years.[16][17]
Personal life
editMurphy is a native of California. In 2015, he was recorded as the 1,250th-richest person in the world, by Forbes Magazine.[18] In 2015, Murphy ranked as the #15 U.S. Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40.[5] As of 2016, he was ranked #374 on the Forbes 400.[5] In 2018, Murphy purchased the former Pacific Palisades estate of "Green Acres" actor Eddie Albert for the asking price of $19.5 million.[19] In 2021, he purchased a property on the Manhattan Beach Strand for $14.5 million.[20]
References
edit- ^ Evan Spiegel (July 19, 2012), Happy Birthday Bobby!, archived from the original on January 14, 2016, retrieved August 13, 2016
- ^ Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel, CNBC, October 6, 2014, archived from the original on October 11, 2019, retrieved February 18, 2017
- ^ "How this Fil-Am became 2nd youngest billionaire in the world". ABS-CBN News. Philippines. March 5, 2015. Archived from the original on March 6, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ^ Saint Mary's in the Community 2, archived from the original on February 20, 2017, retrieved February 19, 2017
- ^ a b c d "Bobby Murphy profile". Forbes. Archived from the original on April 24, 2019. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
- ^ Heath, Alex. "Here's what we know about Bobby Murphy, Snapchat's mysterious billionaire cofounder". Business Insider. Archived from the original on February 22, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
- ^ "The Snapchat Lawsuit, Or How To Lose Your Best Friend Over $70 Million". TechCrunch. March 7, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
- ^ "Meet the secret power players who run Snapchat". Business Insider. September 28, 2016. Archived from the original on November 22, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
- ^ "Snapchat: An Abridged History". Fortune. Archived from the original on August 25, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
- ^ Heath, Biz Carson, Alex. "Meet the power players who help Evan Spiegel run Snap Inc". Business Insider. Archived from the original on January 31, 2019. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Dave, Paresh (March 1, 2017). "Bobby Murphy cleaned up after frat parties; now he stands to clean up in Snapchat IPO". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
- ^ a b Heath, Alex. "Here's what we know about Bobby Murphy, Snapchat's mysterious billionaire cofounder". Business Insider. Archived from the original on February 22, 2019. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
- ^ Heath, Alex (August 22, 2017). "Snap's Evan Spiegel Doesn't Do Everything Himself. These Are His Top Executives". Inc.com. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
- ^ Goode, Lauren (April 26, 2018). "Snapchat Debuts New Spectacles. We Try Them on for Size". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on July 4, 2018. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
- ^ Farrell, Maureen (January 20, 2017), Snapchat Parent Plans to Pay Banks 2.5% of IPO Proceeds, New York: The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on January 21, 2017, retrieved January 22, 2017
- ^ Velazco, Chris (February 2, 2017). "Snap Inc, Quietley created A Foundation to support arts and education". engadget. Rochester, New York. Archived from the original on March 3, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ Taylor, Harriet (February 2, 2017). "Snap co-founders create Snap Foundation to support non-profits". CNBC. Archived from the original on February 25, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ Communications, Forbes Corporate. "Forbes' 29th Annual World's Billionaires Issue". Forbes. Archived from the original on September 11, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
- ^ Leitereg, Neal J. (March 16, 2018). "Snap founder Bobby Murphy spends some green on Eddie Albert's former home". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 8, 2019. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
- ^ "Snapchat Billionaire Bobby Murphy Drops $14.5 Million on the Manhattan Beach Strand". finance.yahoo.com. May 27, 2021. Retrieved September 6, 2021.