在前几年，创办Facebook的马克·扎克伯格一直独占世界最年轻亿万富翁的宝座。然而今年，扎克伯格被Snapchat创始人艾文·斯皮格尔取代。
近日，Snapchat照片分享应用市值已经超过100亿美元，其创始人斯皮格尔的净资产也达到15亿美元，成为新晋世界最年轻亿万富翁，年仅24岁。类似Facebook初创阶段，斯皮格尔所创办的Snapchat照片分享应用同样免费，并不创收。但是其创收前景和空间则足以引来众多投资者的投资。
Snapchat是一款手机通讯软件，最大的特色就是“阅后即焚”，讯息会在传出的10秒后自动焚毁，不会留下任何记录，而该软件也可分享讯息、照片、影片，主要的使用者多半是欧美国家的年轻人。
Facebook与Google都曾向Snapchat提出30亿与40亿美元的高价收购案，但却都遭到拒绝。据数据显示，Snapchat在美国18岁到34岁的人群中，使用率已高达33%，目前更在美国社群软件中排行第三，是一款受瞩目的新兴产品。（中国进出口网）
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.
