Telegram founder Durov says his 100 children will receive share of his estate

by myth_drannonon 6/20/2025, 12:20:17 PM with 11 comments
  • by walterbellon 6/20/2025, 2:53:37 PM

    https://gizmodo.com/telegrams-founder-plans-to-open-source-h...

    > fifteen years ago, a friend asked him to donate sperm at a clinic to help them because they were having trouble conceiving.. "The boss of the clinic told me that ‘high quality donor material’ was in short supply and that it was my civic duty to donate more sperm to anonymously help more couples.. I plan to open-source my DNA so that my biological children can find each other more easily.. The shortage of healthy sperm has become an increasingly serious issue worldwide, and I’m proud that I did my part to help alleviate it."

  • by seydoron 6/20/2025, 2:38:17 PM

    sperm-donated children are not "his children" , they are somebody else's children now . he didn't even say so himself, the title added it

  • by Havocon 6/20/2025, 2:07:15 PM

    >He said a doctor told him that it was his “civic duty” to donate his “high quality donor material,”

    How very soviet of him

  • by madducion 6/20/2025, 3:29:48 PM

    > I decided that my children would not have access to my fortune until a period of 30 years has elapsed, starting from today. I want them to live like normal people, to build themselves up alone, to learn to trust themselves, to be able to create, not to be dependent on a bank account

    I believe he doesn't even spend time with them at all, or even know their names

  • by r721on 6/20/2025, 2:52:30 PM

    Original source: https://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/exclusive-pavel-du...

  • by wood_spiriton 6/20/2025, 3:24:55 PM

    doesn’t this mean that 100 people and those can benefit indirectly from those 100 people all now have a big financial incentive to hurry his demise?

  • by optionon 6/20/2025, 3:11:35 PM

    So over 100 people who never knew him are set to get over 100M dollars upon his death. What could possibly go wrong?

  • by 1024coreon 6/20/2025, 3:07:06 PM

    Only 100 children? Pfffft... amateur! Real pros are nearing 1000: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65429936

  • by ryandvmon 6/20/2025, 2:55:09 PM

    Why are tech bros so... weird?

  • by emsignon 6/20/2025, 3:09:13 PM

    Oh, so he is one of those who want a legion of Mars children to prevent apocalypse. Why are rich people so weird?

    He better makes all 100 aware of each other for a much simpler reason: incest prevention. Even though the chance being slim, it is possible.

    A dutch man was sentenced to not donate any more sperm because one company illegally used his to fertilize dozens of eggs resultingin statistically problematic number of children from one individual.

    So listen techbros, this is not how you "safe" humanity.

  • by migaon 6/20/2025, 1:30:00 PM

    100 children? Looks like Elon is less fertile...