It’s rare for someone to fly under the radar from startup to a billion dollar valuation. Even rarer for a founder who is only 23 years old. Snapchat was started by Stanford students Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy in September 2011, in Spiegel’s father’s living room. Spiegel has emerged as the face of Snapchat.

A lot has been written about Snapchat’s supposedly turning $3 billion from Facebook. The headline link takes you to an example. To me, more interesting is the video below, a September 2013 interview with Spiegel at Disrupt SF:2013. Amazing how much Spiegel has matured in just 6 months. He clearly has been getting some excellent advice from his handlers. The big question for Snapchat is, can they turn the corner and generate revenue?