Pavel Durov

Businessman

1984-10-10

Quotes by Pavel Durov

• To put it simply, it doesn't matter how many other messaging apps are out there if all of them suck.

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• Our growth relies solely on our users suggesting to their friends to download and use Telegram.

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• The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.

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• Few people outside the Telegram fan community realize that most of the new features in messaging appear on Telegram first, and are then carbon-copied by WhatsApp down to the tiniest details.

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• One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

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• Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels.

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• I hope Telegram will be able to rely on the community even more than VK since it's a non-profit project that hopefully will be able to attract people who share the idea behind it.

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• The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for granted.

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• I realized I don't have a safe means of communications. That's how Telegram started.

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• Telegram's popularity is spread evenly across continents. We have a substantial user base in Spain, Italy, Netherlands and Germany. Also in Brazil, Mexico and Guatemala in Latin America, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Uzbekistan, across Asia.

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• It's my responsibility to support the team behind Telegram.

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• In America they started to refer to Telegram as 'ISIS's preferred messaging app,' But in reality there are many more legitimate users.

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• At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising.

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• I don't like the idea of beating birds. I'm vegetarian.

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• If you get rid of emotion for a minute and think about the threat of terrorism statistically, it's not even there. The probability that you will slip on a wet floor in your bathroom and die is a thousand times higher than the probability of you dying as a result of terrorism.

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• WhatsApp has a consistent history - from zero encryption at its inception to a succession of security issues strangely suitable for surveillance purposes.

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• Looking back, there hasn't been a single day in WhatsApp's 10 year journey when this service was secure.

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• Every time WhatsApp has to fix a critical vulnerability in their app, a new one seems to appear in its place.

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• If you have WhatsApp and your phone goes down, you don't have access to your messages. You can't send documents and it's not private.

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• For WhatsApp to become a privacy-oriented service, it has to risk losing entire markets and clashing with authorities in their home country.

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