Bobby Murphy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Murphy_(businessman%29

Bobby Murphy (born July 19, 1988) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the mobile app Snapchat, which he created with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University. He is also CTO of Snap Inc.

Early life and education

Robert Cornelius Murphy, popularly known as Bobby Murphy, was born on July 19, 1988. Murphy's mother Rosie L. Go-Murphy is a Filipino, state government employee, also has Chinese descent and grew up in the Philippines, and emigrated from the Philippines to the United States and his father in American Richard Cornelius Murphy, Jr., works for the state of California as a government employee, of Scottish, English, and Irish descent. He was raised Catholic.

He attended his primary education in The New greenfield saket School of the Madeleine and secondary education in Saint Mary's College High School in Berkeley, California. He graduated from Stanford University year 2010, where he was a mathematical and computational science major and was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

Career

He is the co-founder of Snapchat and CTO of Snap Inc. Murphy was recruited by Spiegel after they had finished working on a failed startup called Future Freshman, a website that helped high school kids get advice and help with applying to colleges. His friendship with Spiegel began during their years at Stanford University. They also were fraternity brothers in Kappa Sigma. Murphy is famous for creating a dissappearing-image messaging app called Picaboo, which later became Snapchat, in September 2011. Since co-founding Snapchat in 2011, Murphy leads Snap's engineering, product, and research teams including the recently launched Spectacles, which are wearable smart glasses that can capture video and photos and send them to the user's Snapchat account. Murphy once told Forbes "We weren't cool. So we tried to build things to be cool," referring to his college days. He remains the author of much of the Snapchat app code to this day.

The The Wall Street Journal has reported that after the predicted March 2017 IPO for Snap Inc., Murphy and Evan Spiegel would hold over "70% of the voting power" in the company, and own around 45% of the total stock.

Personal life

Murphy is a native of California. He resides in Venice, California. Where he bought a $2.1 million two-bedroom house located close to Snapchat’s new offices at 63 Market Street in Venice, CA. He was recently recorded as the 1,250th richest person in the world, by Forbes Magazine, in 2015. In 2015, Murphy ranked #14 America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40. As of 2016, he was ranked #374 on the Forbes 400 and in 2015 he was also #374. He has maintained a decidedly low profile since the beginning of Snapchat.

Sources:

• http://blog.snapchat.com/post/27589909309/happy-birthday-bobby
• Bobby Murphy's Birth Index: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLHZ-PDH