How Telegram Makes Money

[Music] on August 25th 2024 pav durov the billionaire founder of telegram was arrested in France telegram is a desktop and mobile application that can be used for instant messages in social media while telegram isn't widely used in the US it's massive in Eastern Europe and some parts of Asia it has 900 million

monthly active users making it the third largest messaging app in the world after WhatsApp and WeChat so the arrest of telegram's founder and CEO pav durov is a huge deal the French authorities accus telegram of being a hotbed for illegal activity by failing to cooperate with authorities telegram is complicit in the criminality that happens on the platform

DAV calls himself a Libertarian and free speech absolutist he believes sharing any user data with the authorities is a violation of civil liberties the Free Speech debate around telegram is very interesting but what's perhaps even more interesting is the financial side of things telegram isn't run like a normal social media company despite having

close to 1 billion users they only generated $342 million of Revenue in 2023 what little Revenue they do generate appears to be mostly related to cryptocurrencies in this video we'll look at how pav durov created one of the biggest social media companies in the world and why this may end up costing him his

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