Robert Cornelius Murphy (born July 19, 1988) is an American Internet entrepreneur and engineer . He is the co-founder and the CTO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc. , which he created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University .

Snap Inc. is an American technology and camera company, founded on September 16, 2011, by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy and based in Venice, California . It has four products: Snapchat , Spectacles , Bitmoji , and Zenly. The company was originally named Snapchat Inc. upon its inception, but it was rebranded on September 24, 2016, as Snap Inc. in order to include the Spectacles product under a single company.