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Evan Spiegel has turned up in so many places this week, he may in fact be a ghost.

The 24-year-old Snapchat CEO, who built a messaging app and turned it into a media platform for millennials, has been busy circling the globe wooing new investors.

On Sunday, photos popped up of Spiegel hanging with some falcons and Saudi Prince Al-Waleed. The Prince noted a “future potential business cooperation.”

Wednesday, it emerged that Alibaba is planning to join Yahoo! as an investor. In the US, according to Web site Digiday, Spiegel’s introducing a way for users to share video at NCAA games via Snapchat.

“Spiegel is a rock star,” one source said. “The combination of a billion snaps a day and owning the 12- to 17-year-old [demographic] … he’s going for Facebook’s jugular.”

Not everyone thinks so, though. “It’s the most tech bubblicious valuation round,” said PrivCo’s Sam Hamadeh.

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