This story has been doing the rounds of the Interwebz today, after Gawker ran yet another hit piece on LA-based SnapChat CEO (and Ivy League fratboy) Evan Spiegel, whose girlfriend has photos of her running round half naked at Burning Man. Scandalous, right? It seems a few think so, among them ValleyWag, and newly self-anointed Burning Man paper of record, Business Insider.
Girlfriend Lucy Aragon is a 24-year old model and about to become a new Reality TV star, on the Bachelor. She has Burning Man front and center in her Twitter description:
Before you follow me, be advised I have no idea where I’m going. I love Christmas, Steve Jobs, FC Barça and Burning Man.
His tweets are mysteriously quiet between August 24 and September 7, when he re-emerges to post this mysterious image…
He just cashed out $10 million personally on an $800m post-money valuation Series B round, bought a Ferrari and told Facebook to go stick a $3 billion cash offer up their datehole, then followed that up by telling Larry and Sergei to go stick their $4 billion up a similar orifice…so why shouldn’t he go?
Maybe this is a sign that he did…
If you ask me, we need MORE topless models at Burning Man. Many more!
LA weekly has quite a lengthy story on Snapchat’s rise from Frat Boy Darling to Tech World Darling.
CNet has more details of his career and upbringing.
Yahoo Shine admires his fashion style – not just a hoodie but a cool one.
We’ll leave with a little titbit from The Onion.