In what has come as a shock for many Indians, Snapchat Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Evan Spiegel has allegedly said that the app is not for a ‘poor country like India’ and was not keen on expanding the business in India.
The revelation is made by Anthony Pompliano, a former employee who was fired by Snapchat. Pompliano said that Spiegel made this statement in a meeting in 2015. “This app is only for rich people,” Spiegel said, as told by Pompliano. “I don’t want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain.”
According to the Variety report, Pompliano was in a meeting with the CEO to discuss the ideas to increase its global reach when Spiegel made the statement.
The comment made by 26-year-old CEO of snapchat were published in the Variety report after the ex-employee filed a lawsuit against Snapchat in the United States.
After the news broke out, take a look at how twitter reacted:
#boycott_ #Snapchat and let’s make the #snapchat CEO A POor CEO !! _ #UNINSTALLED
— ABHISHEK SWAMI (@abhishekswami27) April 16, 2017
#boycott snapchat pic.twitter.com/b2YJnBU4qz
— MANOJ KUMAR GOHAR (@manojgohar) April 15, 2017
@Snapchat @evanspiegel please update ur info..I dnt think a person with less knowledge should be the CEO. #countrycomesfirst#boycott pic.twitter.com/XLxs40pfOf
— Shivansh pandey (@Im_shivansh) April 15, 2017
#Snapchat This is why general knowledge_ is important. Didn’t he know India ranks third in most number of billionaires_ after USA and China?
— Bipin Mishra (@mishra_bipin10) April 15, 2017
Get ready to see the unity of poor Indians in uninstalling the App.#snapchatceo u will regret this. #Snapchat #snapchatindia pic.twitter.com/6f4VBnHW6d
— Dhruv khanna (@Dhruvkhanna19) April 16, 2017
Kids Uses Snapchat.
Men’s Are Uninstalling Snapchat.
Legends Never Installed Snapchat ____#Snapchat #boycottsnapchat— Raj Gunjal (@Raj_Gunjal) April 16, 2017
#Snapchat‘s target revenue in 2016: $300M
Worth of crackers India burnt on Diwali in 2016: $620M
still india is poor#boycottsnapchat— Chandu_ (@chandu_twitz) April 16, 2017
#Snapchat
SC CEO: India is poor country..Every indian right now.. pic.twitter.com/fGknc2kHQS
— JOEY_ (@being_Joeyy) April 15, 2017
CEO : India is too POOR to use Snapchat
Indians : Mark my Words, You will be the Poorest CEO in future _#boycottsnapchat— Mohan Chowdary Gutta (@Mohan9999999) April 16, 2017
Swiss bank knows everything_#Snapchat pic.twitter.com/TrsxVMrJqo
— yash jain (@yashjn56) April 15, 2017
Rubbishing the claim made by its former employee, this was the reaction of Snap.inc, “This is ridiculous. Obviously, Snapchat is for everyone! It’s available worldwide to download for free.”
“The simple fact is that he (Mr Pompliano) knows nothing about Snap’s current metric,” the company’s attorneys reacted, according to Variety.
Snapchat has its headquarter in Los Angeles, California. It provides a popular image messaging mobile application with over 500 million downloads through Google’s Play Store. It was created in the year 2011 by students of Stanford University, Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown.
