Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has apologized for a slew of leaked emails that gave a look into his college party days, where alcohol, drugs and misogyny apparently drove the scene, The Telegraph reported.
ValleyWag obtained the emails, one of which has Spiegel telling friends, "I hope at least six girls sucked your d*** last night." Spiegel, who was a Kappa Sigma fraternity member at the time, describes such disturbing acts as urinating on women, underage drinking and doing drugs.
"I'm obviously mortified and embarrassed that my idiotic emails during my fraternity days were made public," Spiegel said in a statement provided to TechCrunch. "I have no excuse. I'm sorry I wrote them at the time and I was a jerk to have written them. They in no way reflect who I am today or my views towards women."
TechCrunch pointed out that Spiegel's leaked emails are ironic given the ephemeral nature of Snapchat, a messaging service that deletes content after a few seconds.
"Evan is his own ideal user," the Silicon Valley blog noted.
Spiegel was a student at Stanford University at the time of the emails, studying product design, but he left in 2012 to work on Snapchat. The popular app stemmed from a project he was developing for his college studies, according to The Telegraph.
In an interview, the Snapchat founder earlier said he believed that "deletion should be the default" so only the most important documents are saved.
"Let's delete everything, save the stuff that's important and then you only have to organise the one per cent that's worth keeping," he told The Telegraph.
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