Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: Pavel Durov, the libertarian tech tycoon who was the “Russian Zuckerberg” before creating Telegram

Entrepreneurs in the technology sector are increasingly known to the general publicBoth if they have a rock star personality (like Elon Musk) or if they are more introverted people (like Mark Zuckerberg). Pavel Durov, creator of Telegram, perhaps something has gone unnoticed in these partsBut the rise of its messaging app (which is now accessible again in its native Russia) makes many of us wonder what its history is.
Regardless of his social relations (the press relates him to the supermodel Alena Shishkova), his eccentricities (always wear black or dark gray like a modern Neo) and his libertarian activism, Durov has a long history behind him even before the launch of Telegram.
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The ‘Russian Zuckerberg’

Thanks to the movie ‘The Social Network’ many people know that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, He began his journey of launching online services by hacking the Harvard server in 2003 to create Facemash.com, a platform to vote for the photos of the students of his faculty.
More or less for the same dates, a young Russian who was studying to be a translator named Pavel Durov (born, like Zuckerberg, in 1984), created an online library Call durov.com to make it easy for your college classmates to share books and notes (the URL today redirects to the official Telegram API website).
The immediate success of the initiative led to the creation of a university forum (spbgu.ru), while on the other side of the world Zuckerberg launched Facebook.com, originally conceived as a social network for university students.

In 2006, a former classmate of Durov’s, Vyacheslav Mirilashvili, who was living in the USA at the time. and witnessed the rise of Facebook, accidentally saw a report on the forum created by Durov while reading a Russian newspaper.
When both reestablished contact, they agreed that in the growing Russian Internet market there was space to launch their own social network, with an approach similar to the American one. Originally financed by Mirilashvili’s father, They launched this network with the name of VKontakte (also known as VK). The launch took place on October 10, 2006, the day Durov was 22 years old.

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Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: Pavel Durov, the libertarian tech tycoon who was the “Russian Zuckerberg” before creating Telegram

The ‘Russian Zuckerberg’

Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: Pavel Durov, the libertarian tech tycoon who was the “Russian Zuckerberg” before creating Telegram

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