Pavel Durov

They asked a lot of questions about this walrus's penis bone in the airport.

Both here in the UAE and in France, they are always very interested in this thing.

The truthful answer to this question is I don't really know how many biological kids I have exactly.

Because at a certain point in my life, about 15 years ago, I decided that it was a good idea to be a sperm donor.

Initially, a friend of mine asked me to help

because they were trying to have a baby with his wife and they experienced certain health issues that prevented them to do it the natural way.

And he told me, we don't want to just rely on some random anonymous genetic material.

We want somebody we know and respect to be the biological father of our kid.

And I said,

You gotta be kidding me.

Sounds ridiculous.

What have you been talking about?

But then I realized it's actually a serious issue.

And they were not the only couple struggling with that.

So eventually I got persuaded into doing more of it.

I can't say I'm incredibly proud of that, but I think it was the right thing to do.

Particularly at the time when I thought, okay, I probably don't have much time on this planet left.

Things are getting trickier and trickier.

So if I can help some couples have babies, let's do it.

And then more recently, when I was working on my will, I realized that I shouldn't make a distinction between the kids conceived naturally