History of the Bobby Murphy: Bobby Murphy was born in July 19, 1988 at Berkeley, California. Murphy was originally recruited by his friend Spiegel (where he meet him in Stanford University) after they had finished working on a failed startup called Future Freshman,which was a website a website that helped high school kids get advice and help with applying to colleges. Murphy is famous for creating a disappearing-image messaging app called Picaboo, which later became Snapchat, in September 2011. Since he is co-founding Snapchat in 2011, Murphy leads Snap's engineering, product, and research teams including the recently launched Spectacles(a wearable smart glasses that can capture video and photos and send them to the person's Snapchat account.) He still remains the author of much of the Snapchat app code to this day.