Snapchat’s co-founder is the world’s youngest billionaire. Yet, just five years ago, as an undergraduate at Stanford, Spiegel’s life hardly seemed momentous.
His girlfriend had broken up with him, his fraternity chapter had been kicked off campus, and the only user of his first company was his mom.
“I really had nothing going on,” he later said.
Just goes to show that persistence can go a long way—even when it feels like nothing is going right.