Pavel Durov

For example, this French investigation.

I wasn't interested in probably websites at first.

I didn't even have access to the internet when I was 10 years old.

But I liked video games.

I didn't have enough of them.

And the scarcity forced me to start building them, more computer games, just to play myself.

It's actually an interesting thing that we sometimes don't realize it, but scarcity leads to creativity.

And one of the reasons you have so many people who love to code coming from the Soviet Union or other places which didn't have much access to modern technology, and more importantly, modern entertainment, is that perhaps...

we were not so much distracted by all this abundance of different entertainment options which is not to say it's bad to have those options it's just a fact that we sometimes don't appreciate so i started to build computer games my brother would sometimes guide me for example i would create a turn-based strategy

Of course, two-dimensional by client three-dimensional is too much for me.

But it wasn't as slick in terms of the scrolling FPS, frames per second, parameter.

And I asked my brother how to optimize it.

He would guide me.

And this kind of learning and

Training really shaped my coding skills when I was younger.

Then I started to create video games for my classmates.

When we played, for example, tic-tac-toe on an infinite field in my class during the breaks.

You know, not tic-tac-toe the three in a row.

This is five in a row on an infinite field.

This is a much more interesting game.