💬 "Хочу пожелать вам поскорее увидеть радость в глазах начальника вашей ИК. У меня со своим были непростые отношения: с первого и до последнего дня все 1 год и 7 месяцев я провёл в одиночке. Но когда мы прощались, в его глазах была радость – оттого, что он меня больше не увидит. Уверен, этот момент прощания будет и у вас. И верю, что он наступит скоро".
💬 "Хочу пожелать вам поскорее увидеть радость в глазах начальника вашей ИК. У меня со своим были непростые отношения: с первого и до последнего дня все 1 год и 7 месяцев я провёл в одиночке. Но когда мы прощались, в его глазах была радость – оттого, что он меня больше не увидит. Уверен, этот момент прощания будет и у вас. И верю, что он наступит скоро".
The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. "Russians are really disconnected from the reality of what happening to their country," Andrey said. "So Telegram has become essential for understanding what's going on to the Russian-speaking world." Additionally, investors are often instructed to deposit monies into personal bank accounts of individuals who claim to represent a legitimate entity, and/or into an unrelated corporate account. To lend credence and to lure unsuspecting victims, perpetrators usually claim that their entity and/or the investment schemes are approved by financial authorities. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup.
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