The incredible life of Pavel Durov ' the entrepreneur known as 'Russia's Mark Zuckerberg

Pavel Durov is the 32-year-old CEO of Telegram, the encrypted messaging app that he built after fleeing Russia with the$260 million (183 million) fortune he amassed fromcreating the social network VKontakte.He's been dubbed "Russia's Mark Zuckerberg" due to his success, but he was forced out of the company that made him his fortune. Now his new app has gained100 million users.Durov is known for his unique lifestyle: He only wears black, and he travels constantly around the world. He's had run-ins with armed gangs, the Kremlin, and once threw money out of his office window.Here's the incredible, and often bizarre, story of Durov's life:Durov was born in Russia on October 10, 1984.A photo posted by Pavel Durov (@durov) on Mar 22, 2015 at 3:08am PDTHe learned how to code in school, and played pranks on fellow students. He was close to his older brother, Nikolai Durov, who also knew how to code.Source: The Moscow TimesAfter leaving university in 2006 the Durov brothers started VKontakte, which was a Russian-language social network that worked in a similar way to Facebook. It became incredibly popular and grew to over 350 million users.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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