Pavel Durov

{ "bio": [ "Pavel Durov is the founder and owner of messaging app Telegram, which has more than 1 billion monthly active users worldwide.", "Telegram, which is free to use, competes with messaging apps like Facebook's WhatsApp.", "Durov left Russia after refusing to cooperate with the secret service and provide encrypted data of his first social network's users. Telegram was banned in Russia from 2018 to 2021.", "Durov became a French citizen in 2021 but lives in Dubai.", "Durov, who has five children that he shares with two ex-girlfriends, has claimed to have donated sperm that led to him fathering 100 children." ], "about": [ "Durov is known as Russia's Zuckerberg because he created Vkontakte, Russia's biggest social network, at age 22.", "In 2018 Pavel, with his brother Nikolai, raised $1.7 billion from investors to create TON, a blockchain system; it was shut down after the SEC banned it." ] }