Pavel Durov презентация

Pavel Durov —programmer, founder of the largest Russian-language social network "VK" and messenger "Telegram", dollar billionaire

Biography Pavel Durov was born in Leningrad but spent most of his childhood in Turin, Italy. At the age of 11, he first became interested in programming. His famous trick, when he changed the screen saver of all school computers to a photo of a computer science teacher with the caption "Must die". Durov was denied access to computers, but he hacked passwords to them. In 2001, he graduated with honors from the Academic gymnasium.

Durov started VKontakte, later known as VK, in 2006, which was initially influenced by Facebook. During the time when he and his brother Nikolai built upon the VKontakte website, the company grew to a value of $3 billion.

Telegram On August 14, 2013, the first telegram client was introduced. In an interview with the New York Times, Pavel said that the original idea for the app came to him back in 2011, when he realized that he did not have a secure way to communicate with his brother. The service is based on the MTProto encryption technology developed by Pavel's brother Nikolai.

Interesting Facts On November 19, 2012, the publishing house released Nikolai Kononov’s book, “The Code of Durov,” which describes the formation of the VKontakte social network. Durov has been called the Mark Zuckerberg of Russia. Pavel Durov is a vegetarian