I'm not here to defend Spiegel, but this sentence kind of reads as a joke based on the amount of "copying Snapchat to put into Instagram" that Facebook spent years doing.
ok, fair. Spiegel came up with some new features for his app which people found interesting, and maybe even copied. That will make him an above average Product Manager, not a visionary leader in the caliber of Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, or the Google Duo; all these people are empire builders, they used their initial success acquire/build multiple billion dollar conglomerates that own multiple internet properties.
Granted, Spiegel has kept snap some what relevant all these years, but he is not an empire builder, and to be a big player in the social media space you need a leader who is an empire builder.
I'm not here to defend Spiegel, but this sentence kind of reads as a joke based on the amount of "copying Snapchat to put into Instagram" that Facebook spent years doing.