Pavel Durov

Pavel Durov is the founder and majority owner of messaging app Telegram Messenger, which has more than 200 million users worldwide.Durov has made Telegram free to use; it competes with messaging apps like WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook.Durov is known as Russia's Zuckerberg because he created Vkontakte, Russia's biggest social network. He founded Vkontakte when he was 22; in 2015 he sold a 12% stake in the social network for an estimated $300 million. In 2018 Pavel, with his brother Nikolai Durov, raised $1.7 billion from investors to create TON, a blockchain system based on Telegram.