Snapchat lawsuit tells a common tale: A start-up can have its Winklevosses

In the spring of 2011, Reggie Brown was a junior at Stanford when he approached a friend with an idea: an ephemeral text-messaging service that would delete photos automatically, seconds after they were received. The friend, Evan Spiegel, allegedly replied, "That's a million-dollar idea," and the two decided to recruit a third partner and build it.