Snapchat CEO ‘Mortified’ by Leaked Stanford Frat E-Mails
By Sarah Frier May 28, 2014 7:19 PM ET
Snapchat Inc. Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel apologized for e-mails he sent during his fraternity days that celebrated getting drunk and convincing sorority women to perform sexual acts.
The profanity-laced e-mails were published today by Gawker Media LLC’s Valleywag blog and mostly related to Spiegel organizing Stanford University fraternity parties for Kappa Sigma in 2009 and 2010. In one missive, Spiegel recounts being so drunk he peed on a woman in bed with him.
“I’m obviously mortified and embarrassed that my idiotic e-mails during my fraternity days were made public,” Spiegel said in an e-mailed statement. “I have no excuse. I’m sorry I wrote them at the time and I was jerk to have written them. They in no way reflect who I am today or my views towards women.”
The disclosure of the messages are the latest growing pain faced by Spiegel, 23, whose Los Angeles-based company makes a mobile application for disappearing photo messages. Spiegel last year turned down an acquisition offer from Facebook Inc. for about $3 billion and has been working to build the business. Yet he has encountered snafus, including apologizing in January for a data breach. He also became embroiled in a back-and-forth over his public statements about meetings with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Earlier this month, Snapchat settled claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it deceived users by falsely promising its photo messages disappeared.
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