“As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to com...” — Pavel Durov Quote

As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to comply with the rules of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and countries like that.

I believe that at some point we should come up with a business model that would make us sustainable.

Our growth relies solely on our users suggesting to their friends to download and use Telegram.

To put it simply, it doesn't matter how many other messaging apps are out there if all of them suck.

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

I feel great about coming to Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.

I'm worried for a war to break out between Saudi Arabia and Iran, even though I rule it out.