Founder Profile
Reggie Brown
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Reggie Brown?
Reggie Brown is a founder of Snap Inc, which was founded in 2011 with Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy.
- Company founded
- Snap Inc
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy
Background
Reggie Brown was a Stanford student and fraternity brother of Evan Spiegel when he came up with the ephemeral-photo concept behind Snapchat.
Founding Story
Reggie Brown proposed the idea of disappearing photos while at Stanford in 2011 and worked on the first version of Picaboo with Spiegel and Murphy. He was pushed out of the company soon after and sued for a share of it. The 2014 settlement was later reported at $157.5 million, and Snap credited him as a co-founder. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- Snap FY2025 Form 10-K (Snap Inc)
- Snap Q1 2026 Form 10-Q (Snap Inc)