While Snapchat has released some overarching statistics during its public statements-including 178 million daily active users in the third quarter of 2017-the company has not made public any detailed stats related to many of the app’s most popular elements.Įmployees, partners, and investors have been kept in the dark about how well (or poorly) many key features of the app are doing. And the ones it does release are very broad. Two sources-one currently at Snapchat, another recently gone-told The Daily Beast that Jason Halbert, Snapchat’s HR chief, remains in Spiegel’s close circle despite an investigation into Halbert’s alleged inappropriate behavior, and is given free rein to investigate potential leakers in the company.Īs secretive as Snapchat is about its internal operations, it’s equally as secretive about its data. “Evan is paranoid and they go ballistic when there’s a leak,” another former employee said.Īccording to three current employees, one floor of the New York office is entirely off limits and workers are left to speculate what goes on there. At Snapchat’s NYC holiday party at the Beekman Hotel and its massive, $4 million New Year’s Eve blowout in Los Angeles, employees and guests had the cameras on their phones taped over. “Evan is paranoid and they go ballistic when there’s a leak.”īut the company has become so privacy-obsessed it blocks access to its own app at parties and events.
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