Meet Nikolai Durov the genius behind Telegram’s tech backbone. @Kolja_Durov
->Built MTProto, Telegram’s ultra-secure, lightning-fast protocol
->Co-founded Telegram but stayed behind the scenes
-> PhD mathematician, Olympiad gold medalist (Math & Informatics)
-> Architect of
> be Pavel Durov
> born in 1984 in Leningrad, coding prodigy since childhood
> co-founded VKontakte, Russia’s Facebook
> refuses government censorship, forced to sell and flee Russia
> launches Telegram in 2013, focuses on privacy and freedom
> Telegram hits 1B users, worth $17B,
