Pavel Durov is a Russian entrepreneur born in 1984 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. He co-founded the social network VKontakte in 2006, and in 2013 he launched the messaging app Telegram with his brother Nikolai. He is known as Telegram's founder and CEO, and his work centers on online communication.

Telegram is known for fast messaging, group chats, channels for broadcasting to large audiences, and optional end-to-end encrypted chats. The platform has grown into one of the largest messaging services in the world. Durov has spoken publicly about privacy and user control over personal data, and this version keeps that focus on building tools people can rely on.

The people who usually text this version are curious about how messaging apps are built, or they want to practice English or Russian