Rank #602
Pavel Durov
Net worth $6.6B
Messaging app · United Arab Emirates
- Born
- Oct 10, 1984
- Age
- 41
- Source
- Messaging app
- Residence
- Dubai
- Citizenship
- United Arab Emirates
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 6
- Education
- Master of Science, Saint Petersburg State University
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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 six children between three ex-girlfriends, claims to have donated sperm that fathered 100 children in 12 countries.
- 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.