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January 14, 2014 11:29 pm GMT

Even Evan Spiegel's Antics Can't Make Snapchat Investors Disappear

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These colorful, critical descriptors are merely a sampling of the words used in association with Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel over the past two weeks. The adjectives are not at all flattering, and Spiegel's reputation — which has teetered between confident and arrogant — seems to be slipping toward the latter.

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The issues started when Snapchat experienced its first major security breach, a hack in which 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers were leaked online

The problem worsened when Snapchat acknowledged the hack, but failed to apologize for it, leading Fortune to ponder whether Spiegel or his PR rep should be fired for such a lapse in judgement. (Spiegel has since issued an apology, and even issued a second one Monday for complaints over excessive spam.) Read more...

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