Bobby Murphy

Robert Cornelius Murphy is an American Internet entrepreneur and software engineer. He is the co-founder and the CTO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc., which he created with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University.

Bobby Murphy cofounded Snapchat, the social media app popular with American teens.

Snapchat’s 203 million users share disappearing messages or photos and videos with captions, masks and filters.

Murphy, Snap‘s Chief Technology Officer, built Snapchat with his Stanford University fraternity brother Evan Spiegel.

Spiegel and Murphy each own about 18% of Snap but have voting shares that give them control over the board.

Murphy has invested more than $30 million in real estate near Venice Beach and Pacific Palisades.

The son of California state employees, one of whom emigrated from the Philippines, Murphy grew up in Berkeley, Calif.