Telegram CEO will leave wealth to his 100+ children

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who has more than 100 children, will leave his billion-dollar fortune, Tell French magazine LE clicked on Thursday.

The 40-year-old CEO said he had only written his will recently and that his children would not receive any money from him 30 years from now. “I want them to live like ordinary people, build themselves alone, learn to trust themselves, be able to create, not rely on bank accounts,” he said.

In 12 countries, he has six children, three different partners, and donates more than 100 through sperm. He said there were no wills between the wills.

“They are all my children and they will all have the same rights,” he told The Outlet. “I don’t want them to tear each other apart after they die.”

In a widespread focus on the inequality gap, Durov chose a rather personal form of wealth redistribution.

In the telegram postal Last year, Durov said he donated sperm for the first time 15 years ago to help his friend conceive. The head of the clinic told him he was a “high-quality donor substance” and told him that it was his “citizen obligation to help more couples donate more sperm to anonymously.” Durov said he will “open source my DNA so that my biological children can find each other more easily.”

His telegram succession plan is that it will become a non-profit foundation. “My goal is to ensure continuity of the platform,” he said. “I hope it will continue to be independent, respect privacy and freedom of speech.”

Durov first made his fiscal year in 2013, when he sold his stake on the Russian Facebook vkontakte and invested most of his earnings in Bitcoin. That year, he started the telegram for $200 million.

Bloomberg Billionaire Index estimate His net worth is $13.9 billion, but Durov said he did not receive salary or dividends from the company. “Telecommunications are the source of expenditure, not the source of income,” he told Le Point, adding that he was the sole shareholder. A failed blockchain project, prohibit To the SEC, put the company in $2 billion in debt.

Telegram now has over a billion active users per month. It helps pioneering senior join messaging, beloved by privacy activists, but also welcomed by criminals. In 2024, the outspoken free voice champion Durov Arrested In France, telegraphs promote various crimes, including child pornography, drug trafficking and money laundering. “Just because criminals use our messaging services among many others doesn’t make those who operate criminals,” he told Le Point.