Facts about the founder of the social network Telegram and Vkontakte Pavel Durov

Facts about the founder of the social network Telegram and Vkontakte - Pavel Durov

Facts about the founder of the social network Telegram and Vkontakte - Pavel Durov

Pavel Durov, a Russian programmer and creator of the social networks Telegram and Vkontakte and a billionaire (in rubles) at the age of 30, was born on October 10, 1984.

From the age of 11, Durov became interested in programming and tried to easily decrypt school school passwords, and he did. In those days, he studied programming in depth and changed the “screensavers” of all the computers in the school through the program.

In 2006, Pavel St. Petersburg State University in filiologiya graduated from university during the war he graduated from the faculty, " a lieutenant in the reserves he gained the title of" red diploma from the University graduated the same year Vkontakt social network.

During his studies at the university, he created two Internet projects ( durov.com , Spbgu.ru ), both of which were projects that allowed the exchange of abstracts and ideas between his university (SPbGU) and other universities in Russia.

Durov's friend shows him the Facebook social network, and inspired by it, Pavel sets out to create a Facebook-like social network for Russians, which he initially wants to call Student.ru , then changes to Vkontakte. (each student graduates anyway, i.e. changes as he or she relinquishes his or her student status). After the creation of Vkonakte (October 1, 2006), this site started working as a database only to store the questionnaires of all university students, and later developed as a social network.

There have been many complaints about this project, the court has taken action several times, the reason being copyright, i.e. theft of site content.

Pavel Durov has been supporting and funding groups of Russian students at various programming championships.

Interestingly, Durov could not say the letter "R" until he was 7 years old.

Paul is a vegetarian. He also walked away from alcohol, expensive houses, and cars. He used to go to work on the subway, but he didn't mind traveling.

As an idol, Durov knew Apple co-founder Steve Jobs .

In 2011, Pavel ranked 350th on the list of Russian billionaires with 7.9 billion (wikipedia).

At the 2012 Digital Life Design ( DLD ) conference, Pavel Durov waived $ 1 million for the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

On November 19, 2012, Mann, Ivanov and Ferber published a book by Nikolai Kononova entitled Code Durova . This book is dedicated to Pavel Durov, the founder of the social network Vkontakte, and is based on documents and interviews.

AR Films , led by producer Alexander Rodnyansk, has received permission to screen the above book in film form, and the film is scheduled to be released to the public in 2014.

In 2013, Durov founded Digital Forest , which introduced Telegram Messenger to the public.