Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482

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Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram.

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*EPISODE LINKS:*

Pavel's Telegram: https://t.me/durov

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Telegram: https://telegram.org/

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*OUTLINE:*

0:00 - Introduction

3:07 - Philosophy of freedom

6:15 - No alcohol

14:20 - No phone

20:16 - Discipline

41:28 - Telegram: Lean philosophy, privacy, and geopolitics

56:50 - Arrest in France

1:13:01 - Romanian elections

1:23:56 - Power and corruption

1:33:29 - Intense education

1:45:29 - Nikolai Durov

1:49:58 - Programming and video games

1:54:11 - VK origins & engineering

2:11:24 - Hiring a great team

2:20:40 - Telegram engineering & design

2:39:42 - Encryption

2:44:39 - Open source

2:49:26 - Edward Snowden

2:51:58 - Intelligence agencies

2:53:10 - Iran and Russia government pressure

2:56:19 - Apple

3:03:16 - Poisoning

3:35:31 - Money

3:44:23 - TON

3:54:13 - Bitcoin

3:57:12 - Two chairs dilemma

4:03:52 - Children

4:15:02 - Father

4:19:33 - Quantum immortality

4:26:05 - Kafka



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