20 | BILLY GALLAGHER: Snapchat, Venture, & the Future




OFF RCRD with Cory Levy show

Summary: This week, Cory speaks to journalist, author and startup analyst Billy Gallagher, who is well known for covering early stage startups at TechCrunch and being an analyst at Khosla Ventures. Billy attended Stanford and was in the same fraternity as Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel, which he has now written a new book out today on Amazon titled 'How to turn down a billion dollars' covering the events that lead to its skyrocketing multi-billion dollar success. In this week's episode, Billy talks about how he landed a job at TechCrunch while at college, his exposure to early stage startups while in venture capital, how he met Evan, if he thinks Snapchat can become the next Facebook and tells us more about his new book.