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Telegram and its team
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- 0:00About a billion people use his app. It's
- 0:02built by around 30 engineers.
- 0:04>> [music]
- 0:05>> Pavel Durov created Russia's biggest
- 0:07social network, VKontakte.
- 0:10When the government demanded data on
- 0:11protesters, he refused. [music]
- 0:13He lost the company and left Russia.
- 0:16In 2013, with his brother Nikolai, he
- 0:19launched [music] Telegram. No investors
- 0:21telling him what to do. He owns it
- 0:23himself.
- 0:24>> [music]
- 0:24>> He told Tucker Carlson the team had
- 0:26about 30 engineers, no HR department,
- 0:29and that he was the only product
- 0:30manager.
- 0:32900 million [music] users, then a
- 0:34billion.
- 0:36In August 2024, he landed near Paris and
- 0:38was arrested, accused of failing to stop
- 0:41crime on his platform.
- 0:43He was later allowed to leave France.
- 0:44[music]
- 0:45One app, a tiny team, a billion people
- 0:49talking.
- 0:50>> Follow Vibe Economics for more.
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