Pavel Durov
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Podcast Appearances
Tax breaks.
And he said, never, just forget about this.
It's impossible.
I'm not coming back to France.
He's traumatized by the experience.
And he's French.
He was born there.
He has a French passport.
So unless things like this change, France will, and the rest of Europe, will keep struggling with economic growth, with budget deficits.
with unemployment, and all the other relevant social and economic metrics.
At the age of 11, I got the opportunity to enter an experimental school in St.
Petersburg where I lived and you had to pass a rigorous test to
get accepted the idea behind the school was that if you try to Squeeze as much information as possible into a brain of a teenager Making a focus on mass and foreign languages
then there will be some changes in the brain of the student that will allow the student to understand most other disciplines.
But we had a class, as a result, that didn't have any single focus.
It was very widespread across a lot of disciplines.
You would have four foreign languages at least, including Latin, English, French, German.
In addition, you can get ancient Greek.
You would have classes like biochemistry or psychoanalysis, evolutionally psychology.
The difference of this class as opposed to other classes in the same school, which was part of the St.