Pavel Durov, founder of the famous messaging app Telegram, has offered to cover the cost of IVF treatment for women who want to use his donated sperm and promised that his children will get an equal share of his $17 billion fortune. Provided they can prove their DNA connection to them. Powell has given this information to the Wall Street Journal. The 41-year-old Russian-born tech entrepreneur revealed in July 2024 that he has fathered more than 100 biological children in at least 12 countries through sperm donation. Durov began donating sperm around 2010, initially to help a friend have a child, after which he began giving anonymous donations at Moscow’s AltraVita fertility clinic.
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According to the report, in the summer of 2024, the clinic launched an unusual marketing campaign, touting Durov’s ‘biomaterial’ as having ‘high genetic compatibility’ and offering free IVF to women under the age of 37. A former doctor at the clinic told the WSJ that participants were required to be unmarried to avoid legal complications, and noted that the women interested were “educated and very healthy.” The clinic’s website featured a banner with Durov’s photo and the Telegram logo, promoting his ‘high-demand’ sperm.
More than 100 children expected to inherit billions under DNA-verified plan Durov announced during a French magazine interview that all of his biological children would receive an equal share of the inheritance. ‘As long as they can prove they share DNA with me, maybe 30 years from now, after I’m gone, they will have the right to inherit a share of my property,’ he explained on the Lex Friedman Podcast in October 2024.
According to Forbes, his net worth was estimated at $17 billion, a large portion of which was related to Telegram, which he was planning to give to a non-profit foundation. He also had an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin purchased in 2013. The inheritance announcement was followed by a flood of messages from people claiming to be his child, according to Durov, who said he plans to open-source his DNA so biological children can find each other.
The billionaire says the global sperm shortage inspired him to donate. Durov presented his sperm donation as a solution to the problem of male infertility and declining sperm counts worldwide. He wrote on Telegram in 2024, ‘Lack of healthy sperm is becoming a serious problem around the world and I am proud to have contributed to reducing it.’
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