Pavel Durov

Yeah, so you keep improving the existing features and adding new ones.

And every time when you add a new feature, you don't want to clutter the app.

So in a way, they're not in your way.

They're invisible.

That's not an easy thing to do.

And most of the features maybe are not even known to the majority of our users.

But when you need them, they're there.

So premium is one source of our revenue.

We also have ads, but they're context-based, not targeted.

Of course, we leave probably 80% of the value on

on the table because we are not ready to engage in all these practices, exporting personal data.

Of course, because we would never use, for example, your personal messaging data or your context data or your metadata or your activity data to target ads.

It's sad that it became synonymous with the internet industry.

this kind of exploitation.

But we are happy with the fact that we managed to make Telegram profitable despite that.

We're also experimenting a lot with blockchain-based technologies.

We're the first app to allow people to directly own their username and their digital identities using smart contracts and NFTs, removing Telegram from the picture.

So, for example, Telegram cannot confiscate your username from you.

It's impossible.

We do a lot of things related to the ecosystem of Telegram.