In our time, almost everyone has their own page in a social network like VKontakte. Every day we exchange messages there, listen to music, laugh at jokes in various groups, which VKontakte millions. Do we know much about the founder of this site?
Who is Pavel Durov?
Pavel Valeryevich Durov is a very successful programmer, entrepreneur and billionaire. And of course he is the developer of the well-known Vkontakte site for each of us. He is a very bright person who, despite all the negative feedback on the Internet about himself, continues to move towards his goal. In addition to the fact that he is not particularly concerned about the opinion of people, Pavel also decides to express his opinion of the Russian authorities. At what no action on her part could not stop Durov. After all, after he learned that to all our correspondence on social networks the government has access, he decides to create his application, which does not allow them to read our messages.
He was born on October 10, 1984 in the city of Leningrad, Russia.
Education
As a young child, Pavel and his family moved to Turin, although he stayed there for a very short time. He enrolled there in the most ordinary school, where he studied for only a few years, after which he moved with his family to Russia. His parents give in a very prestigious gymnasium, in which absolutely all subjects were studied in-depth program. Already in the gymnasium he showed his special knowledge in the field of computer science. In one lesson, Durov in the drawing program wrote in English "Must die" and put it on the desktop on all computers. The teacher tried to restrict access by putting passwords on computers, but Durov did not stop at all. He could hack them for once or twice.
After graduating from high school, which he finished "excellent", the young genius enters the Faculty of Philology at St. Petersburg State University. This choice he made in honor of his father, who is a very famous philologist. But despite his great mind, he never gets his diploma. Paul decided that he did not want a monotonous job for another "uncle," and his diploma would do just that. He leaves his university and begins to develop his own projects.
In contact with
His idea, he borrowed from such a network, as Facebook. Durov really liked this kind of communication and the exchange of all kinds of information between people who are at a great distance. Pavel begins to look for information on all sorts of forums and reread the abstracts found on the Internet.
For his development, he invites his brother Nicholas, with whom they started the social network project. Initially, they could only register in contact by invitation, which they sent to their friends. And so the very first participant was registered in October 2006. They also planned to name their network "Student.ru", but soon they changed their mind and called it "VKontakte".
By 2008, the number of users was more than 20 million. At that time, Durova was considered a living legend. Although many of his idea was considered stolen from Mark Zuckerberg.
In early 2014, Pavel Durov sells a stake in VKontakte to Maily.ru for $ 3 billion. After that, he tried to get them back, because he regretted his decision. But even going to court did not help him.
Our days
After Pavel left VKontakte, he is engaged in another project called Telegram. His project was very similar to Messenger and had practically nothing special. His main idea was the secretiveness of correspondence. Durov believed that the authorities should not see our reports, which pushed him to this idea. Many times the government tried to block its application, but Paul stands on his own and continues to improve it to this day.
April 22, 2014 Durov leaves Russia, making a number of demands that must be met by the government for his return. He believes that there are a lot of shortcomings in Russian politics and he does not want to work there. While Durov is not going to disclose information about where he went. In the end, he decided to say only that abroad he plans to develop a social network exclusively for telephones, the details of which he still keeps silent.
To date, the state of Paul Durov is more than 9 billion rubles, although experts believe that a lot of money he hides. He ranks 135 in the Forbes list among Russian businessmen, although this is only the beginning.