Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel apologized after copies of "idiotic" emails he wrote during his time in college leaked online.
On Wednesday, Valleywag published copies of emails Spiegel sent out to his fraternity brothers at Stanford University. The report gave Spiegel a negative image of someone trying to get girls drunk so that they would have sex with his friends.
Some of the emails read "Hope at least six girl [sic] s***ed your d***s last night," ""Shopping list: 1 ounce of marijuana, 1 kilo of blow ... I'll roll a blunt for whoever sees the most tits tonight," and more.
Business Insider explained that Spiegel's college emails mattered as it supported the notion that technology companies favor male employees over women. It also explained why the earliest version of Snapchat used slang words to address women such as "gurl," "betch," and "betches."
Spiegel responded to the issue, saying he felt mortified and embarrassed.
"I'm obviously mortified and embarrassed that my idiotic emails during my fraternity days were made public. I have no excuse. I'm sorry I wrote them at the time and I was jerk to have written them. They in no way reflect who I am today or my views towards women," he told Business Insider.
Spiegel requested people drop the issue, since it happened in the past.
"Let's delete everything, save the stuff that's important and then you only have to organize the one per cent that's worth keeping," he said. Unlike Snapchat, which allows embaressing images or messages to be sent and immediately deleted, emails tend to hang around...," he said in an emailed statement to The Telegraph.
Evan Spiegel, 23, is CEO and co-founder of the mobile app Snapchat with Reggie Brown and Robert Murphy. He quit Stanford University in 2012 to focus on the development of Snapchat before completing his degree. The emails that leaked online were sent to his fraternity brothers at Kappa Sigma.
