New York Post

Spiegel sails as Snap sinks

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WHILE Snapchat investors may have swooned over new wedding pictures of Snapchat CEO

Evan Spiegel and his blushing bride, Miranda Kerr, they are peeved that Spiegel is said to be floating around on a megayacht in Europe as Snap stock sinks.

Spiegel — who in May married Kerr, who wore a Grace Kelly-inspired dress — gave himself a $800 million bonus for taking his company, Snap Inc., public in March at a $33 billion valuation.

But this week, Snap shares hit a fresh low, and the social-media company is now worth less than half its peak value. Shares are down nearly 30 percent in the past three months as analysts criticized Snap’s ability to “innovate and improve its ad product this year.”

Meanwhile, sources say Spiegel is rumored to be sailing off the coast of Italy, then possibly on to Greece, with his bro buddies on the 70-meter superyacht Joy, which rents for up to 840,000 euros (about $967,415) for just a week.

One incensed Snap investor told Page Six, “Where are the shareholde­rs’ yachts? Evan is chilling on the coast while Snap burns under Facebook competitio­n. He’s feasting on Italian delicacies while shareholde­rs starve. ‘Let them eat losses!’ ”

The problems for Snap — whose reps didn’t get back to us — are stacking up. The company’s first-quarter revenue and user growth fell short of Wall Street expectatio­ns. Meanwhile, Mark

Zuckerberg — who reportedly floated a $3 billion takeover offer of Snap in late 2013 and was famously rebuffed by Spiegel — has developed a similar platform to Snapchat on Facebook and Instagram, cutting into Snapchat’s user numbers.

“The death knell for Snapchat was Instagram Stories,” David Pierpont, of digital agency Ansira, told CNBC a week ago. “When we saw that, we said, ‘It’s over.’ ”

As he owns more than 90 million shares of Snap, Spiegel, 27, is one of the world’s youngest billionair­es. But the drop has slashed the value of his net worth from $6 billion to around $3.6billion.

More rosé, Signore Spiegel?

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