I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized. Pavel Durov Read Quote
When you start giving interviews like the CEO of an established company, it’s just wrong. Pavel Durov Read Quote
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. Pavel Durov Read Quote
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. Pavel Durov Read Quote
This is a big debate concerning the values of the society in question: Whether the risk of a terrorist act is more important than the 100 percent right to privacy. Pavel Durov Read Quote
In America they started to refer to Telegram as ‘ISIS’s preferred messaging app,’ But in reality there are many more legitimate users. Pavel Durov Read Quote
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. Pavel Durov Read Quote
Armed police at my apartment doors in 2011 was scary, but the sudden – and not exactly legal – takeover of 48 per cent of VKontakte, that coincided with a fabricated case against myself in April 2013, was more frightening. Pavel Durov Read Quote
The probability that we will get into a car accident is a million times higher than the probability we will suffer as a result of terrorist act. Pavel Durov Read Quote
