"Snapchat was really at the frontier of having to negotiate this emerging question of how does technology apply to these old laws that were written decades ago."
May 20, 2022 at 02:30 PM
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Chris Handman, the former general counsel of Snap, says that to succeed as a legal chief you have to embrace risk and the lack of certainty.
Handman says he has a “sense of constant curiosity,” an attribute that led him to leave private practice in 2014 and become the first general counsel of Snap, the parent company of the social media platform Snapchat.
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Chris Handman, co-founder of TerraTrue. Courtesy photo
