Wow...
Pavel Durov walked right out of the pages of Atlas Shrugged and took up residence in this world.
Not as a politician, but as an entrepreneur.
And that's funny because almost all of Silicon Valley started with the innovators quoting Ayn Rand in the middle of the night to each other and now they are Marxists or, worse, Nazis. At best, all of them are Deep State authoritarians.
Pavel was born in Russia, but now lives in Dubai. He is 100% devoted to freedom of speech, more so than even Elon Musk. Pavel's devotion is personal and his lens is business, not politics. He left Russia over demands of the government for him to supply user data and he did not settle in any other country in the world due to such demands of governments. He does not have that problem in Dubai.
Also, Pavel prefers not to have his own money, a few hundred million dollars as he said it, in assets or investments. He keeps all of it in Bitcoin.
The reason? The other stuff takes time and energy and he likes the life of developing Telegram that he is now enjoying.
This man is modern-day hero material.
I, myself, am going to get more active on Telegram.
Michael