🐥Short paraphrase of Pavel Durov's interview

After what I experienced in America, I have little faith that platforms developed in the US are safe.

Telegram has enjoyed increased scrutiny from US intelligence agencies, who have tried to recruit a technical employee and visited him themselves.

The biggest pressure Telegram is facing is not from governments, but from Apple and Google.

I have tried many places where you can develop Telegram: Berlin, London, Singapore. But everywhere I encountered bureaucracy. In the end, I chose Dubai.

The US is the only country in the world where I have survived a street attack. I was attacked in San Francisco by three muggers after a meeting with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.

I've had several hundred million dollars sitting in a bank account or bitcoins for ten years. And I don't do anything with them. I have no real estate, no airplanes, no yachts.

Telegram now has 900 million users, a number that could grow to 1 billion in the coming year.