Bobby Murphy: The Story Behind the Fortune
Bobby Murphy co-founded Snap with Evan Spiegel and built the early engineering behind Snapchat. He serves as the company's chief technology officer and keeps a notably low public profile.
Bobby Murphy co-founded Snap with Evan Spiegel and built the early engineering behind Snapchat. He serves as the company's chief technology officer and keeps a notably low public profile.
Bobby Murphy built this fortune from the ground up — a self-made success in technology & social media.
He studied at Stanford University and is based in Los Angeles, California.
A few of the highlights on the public record: Co-founded Snapchat and built its early technology; Serves as Snap's chief technology officer; Keeps a famously low public profile.
The journey to get here is well documented. In 2011, built the early engineering behind the disappearing-photo app with Evan Spiegel at Stanford. In 2017, took Snap public on the NYSE.
The fortune shows up across our lists, too: #7 on The Youngest Billionaires (Under 45) (out of 8 tracked).
On net worth alone, the closest companies are Evan Spiegel ($687.20M) and Mark Zuckerberg ($264.22B) — a reminder of how tightly bunched the very top of the wealth list really is.
Today, Bobby is worth an estimated $696.56M — #50 in the world on our real-time list, a figure that moves with SNAP's share price.