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fiatjaf | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 Telegram is shit and getting shittier every day. I use it way too much.
Durov sounds like a manipulative liar and I had never heard Tucker Carlson before, looks like he is just a scammy journalist by the way he speaks.

Also from where is Durov taking the money he is spending like crazy on Telegram with no revenue for over 10 years?

But it's surprising that Telegram only has 30 employees (?) -- if that is even true. Good news for the scalability and viability of smaller operations that we don't need huge companies and all their bureaucracy and overhead.
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CXPLAY | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I have the same question about Telegram, and I can only assume that the revenue VK brings in sustains Telegram for a full decade, but obviously that's not possible.
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konstantine | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 He started and sold VK which is a massive platform in Russian
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Janneke | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Telegram just got 330 Million Dollar.

And does not say where they come from!
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calvadev⚡️ | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Probably sustained the company off of whatever money he made from VK.
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Troy | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Durov's answers were a little too perfect.  Seemed very produced.   If he truly is running dev, and he's gamified hiring elite talent, then maybe 30 works.  Not like I'm seeing massive feature sets rolling out.
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mich | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 DST Global.