Pavel Durov

Pavel Valerievich Durov is a Russian entrepreneur who is best known for being the founder of the social networking site VK, and later the Telegram Messenger. He is the younger brother of Nikolai Durov.

  • Pavel Durov is the founder and majority owner of messaging app Telegram Messenger, which has more than 200 million users worldwide.
  • Durov has made Telegram free to use; it competes with messaging apps like WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook.
  • Durov is known as Russia’s Zuckerberg because he created Vkontakte, Russia’s biggest social network.
  • He founded Vkontakte when he was 22; in 2015 he sold a 12% stake in the social network for an estimated $300 million.
  • In 2018 Pavel, with his brother Nikolai Durov, raised $1.7 billion from investors to create TON, a blockchain system based on Telegram.

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