Pavel Durov
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from many apps and I know several people just anecdotally I earned 10 million dollars I earned 3 million dollars just in a matter of months single-handedly sometimes they would have a team of 2-3 people so whenever I hear stories from people who
we're able to build businesses on top of Telegram.
This makes me incredibly proud.
I was a big believer in Bitcoins since more or less the start of it.
I got to buy my first few thousand of Bitcoin in 2013.
And I didn't care much.
I think I bought at the local maximum.
It's something like $700 per Bitcoin.
And I just threw a couple of millions there.
And a lot of people after Bitcoin later next year went down somewhere close to 300, 200, started to express their
sympathy to me.
They say, oh, you're a poor fellow.
You made this horrible mistake investing in this new thing, but don't feel bad about it.
We still have some respect for you.
And my response to them was, I don't care.
I'm not going to sell it.
I believe in this thing.
And again, I'm not talking about Bitcoin, but it relates to cryptocurrencies in general.
So I have been able to fund my lifestyle, so to say, from my Bitcoin investment.
Some people think if I'm able to rent nice locations or