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by seniorivn 1732 days ago
do you think a lot of people would be willing to donate to telegram? what would be an average annual donation per user? I bet it would be a lot less than what big tech makes, and there is no reason to believe durov would settle for that
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skinkestek 1732 days ago
> do you think a lot of people would be willing to donate to telegram?

Yes.

> what would be an average annual donation per user?

I don't know but if it was entirely voluntarily, somewhere between 0 and $10 yearly.

> I bet it would be a lot less than what big tech makes, and there is no reason to believe durov would settle for that

That doesn't seem to be Durovs goal.

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seniorivn 1731 days ago
> That doesn't seem to be Durovs goal.

completely disagree, he is definitely focused on making telegram some huge IT project that would put him on the same level as great IT entrepreneurs of our time. The whole TON project was all about making tons of money from becoming the main beneficiary from first decentralized consumer economy. It's a mystery how he is going to achieve anything similar now, but that goal was so ambitious, it's unlikely he will settle for something as small as this

let's use 2017 as a reference https://www.statista.com/statistics/268604/annual-revenue-of... https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

so it had an annual revenue of $20 per user, and your assumption is a mere $10 max(likely lower), that's extremely low for someone like Durov

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