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Telegram: How to Counter-Attack | The Generalist
Interesting Telegram operating details in this interview with founder Pavel Durov:
— ~1 billion users
— Never ran an ad
— Only 30 full-time employees
— He’s the sole director, equity holder and product manager (works directly with every engineer and designer)
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Trung Phanx.comTucker Carlson: "Why didn't you take any funding?"
Pavel Durov: "Why should I?"
Tucker: "Why don't you hire a lot of people?"
Pavel: "Why should I?"
1. Pavel Durov bootstrapped Telegram from his savings (sold his previous social media platform, and says he was... See more
Dmytro Krasunx.com
Telegram describes resisting government pressure and a suspicious attempt by French intelligence to influence a legal case.
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The rest were okay. Then they said, thank you, and sent us another list of dozens of channels, many, many channels.
We looked at these channels, we realized that there is no solid foundation to justify banning them. And we refused to do that.
But interestingly enough, the French intelligence services that were asking us to do this in Moldova, let me
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