A former Snapchat employee has alleged that the social media company's chief executive officer Evan Spiegel said 'India is too poor a country to expand its business to'.

The former employee, Anthony Pompliano, alleged that the comment was made in a 2015 meeting discussing user growth, where Spiegel reportedly said, "This app is only for rich people. I don't want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain."

According to a report by Variety, Pompliano was in a meeting with the Snapchat CEO to discuss and propose ideas for global outreach and growth of the application when he was "abruptly" interrupted by Spiegel. When concerns were raised about the app's slow growth in a market like India which has a growing mobile penetration, Spiegel cut the employee mid-sentence saying, "This app is only for rich people. I don't want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain."

The publication reported the comment earlier this week, when Pompliano's allegations were made public.

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Snapchat is now rating 3.9 at the moment. Lol

I can imagine if this was said about Nigeria....
We'll bash them yet still download the app daily...

Indians no try at all...I trust my naija people. By the time they zoom into @snapchat, e go be @videotalk

Booked

If it were to be my country it would be an E-war between Igbos and yoruba

War...trouble in snapchat

The CEO caused it, he shouldn't have said that derogatory statement, Indian are fast developing when it comes to technology like it neigbour China, and i think in some years to come india will be a standard country, besides the world most expensive house in the world is owned by an indian business man mukesh ambani which cost 1 billion dollars to build.

Lol, these guys no get chill.
Snapchat's rating is down again.

It's obvious snapchat will loose since millions of indians are into social networking, that's more traffic to twitter, facebook, whatsapp, instagram. Sorry snapchat.

The guys comment were not sensible, but Indians can fk off for all I care.. They are not exactly setting good examples themselves, this is a country that looks down on Northern Indians due to their darker skin hue..bloody racists..

And don't be surprise indians use snapchat more than US, UK and some other top countries.

O my word, Indians are highly patriotic. You need to read those reviews. Snapchat has plummeted from a 4.4 ratingto 3.8

[color=red][/color]WOW

its 4.0

If indians are so rich, why cant MoneyGram and western union go out of there

Any country that don't send money out is as poor as greece....

This is a mere allegation from someone who is obviously beefing the snapchat CEO, there is no evidence that he made the statement.
These indians sef eh, low 3rd world mentality, lol. The statement pain dem they know it's the truth, mentally and financially they are poor.
Serves them right. Snapchat don't even need them, even Spain no complain

Snapchat, be ready for a buyout by Mark Nsukabag of Facebook. Else you'll run out of users and trust Mark, he'll use this as an advantage.

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Ever since the issue of my country men being mobbed in India, I don't give a Bleep about them.

decatalyst:
Indians no try at all...I trust my naija people. By the time they zoom into @snapchat, e go be @videotalk

Lol

E be like say this controversy dey make SnapChat popular sha