at • and by Œ he built a full-fledged operating system for Intel ŒŸ microprocessors in ‹Ÿ assembly language. ˜hile spending summers in €iberia without access to a computer -year old „ikolay filled hundreds of pages with ‹Ÿ assembly code creating programs such as a ›orth interpreter entirely on paper. ”s a Cƒ and guru in distributed systems he scaled ž¯ and then elegram to tens of millions of daily users. In — „ikolai became interested in ˆitcoin and related technologies. is research on these topics culminated in ƒ„’s echnical ˜hite Paper where he summari‡ed the advancements of blockchain technology and proposed a novel architecture for scalable decentrali‡ed ledgers. Pavel Durov › Œ-present– Co-founder CEƒ Product Manager at elegram® › Ÿ- Œ– Co-founder CEƒ Product Manager ead ‘eveloper at ž¯. A“ar‡Š › he most promising „orthern European leader under Œ … —†®13 14 › œoung ¢lobal eader by the ˜orld Economic ›orum … š†. Pavel first gained international recognition for founding ž¯ which under his leadership commanded a š percent market share in Russia ¨kraine and ˆelorussia eclipsing ›acebook and other competing social networks. ”n outspoken libertarian he published free market manifestos urging the Russian government to deregulate and decentrali‡e the country’s economy. Pavel was forced to sell ž¯ and leave Russia in — after a clash with the government over his users’ privacy and freedom of speech. Pavel started coding at and at he already created his first multiplayer strategy game. ”s a teenager he built popular online communication tools for fellow students. ”t he single-handedly coded the first version of ž¯. Pavel founded elegram and became interested in cryptocurrencies in Œ when he spent ª .™ million of his savings on ˆitcoin that he holds to this day. Œ. ž¯ontakte’s ›ounder Pavel ‘urov the Most Promising „orthern European eader ¨nder the ”ge of Œ. —. œoung ¢lobal eader Class of š. Ž Œ
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