Telegram CEO’s big claim: Pavel Durov says he is biological father to ‘100 kids in 12 countries’, reveals future plans

Pavel Durov, the co-founder and CEO of social media platform Telegram, has claimed that he is the biological father of over “100 kids in 12 countries”. In a long post on his Telegram channel with more than 5.82 million subscribers, Durov shared that he had been an active sperm donor in the previous years.

The 39-year-old, who had created Russia’s biggest social network Vkontakte at the age of 22, expressed his desire to “open-source” his DNA.