{"id":897,"date":"2024-07-30T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T08:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/telegram-founder-says-he-has-over-100-children\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T08:42:03","slug":"telegram-founder-says-he-has-over-100-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/telegram-founder-says-he-has-over-100-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram founder says he has over 100 children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Pavel Durov says he was a prolific sperm donor, helping couples in 12 countries conceive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messaging app, has revealed that he has fathered over 100 children in 12 countries through sperm donations.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian-born IT entrepreneur said he started donating sperm 15 years ago when a friend approached him with a request that seemed unusual at first.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe said that he and his wife couldn\u2019t have kids due to a fertility issue and asked me to donate sperm at a clinic for them to have a baby. I laughed my ass off before realizing he was dead serious,\u201d<\/em> Durov explained in a Telegram post.<\/p>\n<p>He quoted doctors as saying that <em>\u201chigh quality donor material was in short supply\u201d<\/em> and that it was his <em>\u201ccivic duty\u201d<\/em> to donate sperm anonymously to help more couples. <em>\u201cThis sounded crazy enough to get me to sign up for sperm donation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Durov said he now intends to disclose his DNA code to make it easier for his biological children to find each other. <em>\u201cMy past donating activity has helped over a hundred couples in 12 countries to have kids. Moreover, many years after I stopped being a donor, at least one IVF clinic still has my frozen sperm available for anonymous use by families who want to have kids.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Durov, who is unmarried, says he realizes <em>\u201cthere are risks\u201d<\/em> but doesn\u2019t regret having been a donor.<\/p>\n<p>        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/601535-telegram-billion-users\/\">Telegram close to a billion users \u2013 founder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A shortage of healthy sperm has become an increasingly serious issue worldwide, Durov lamented, adding that he is proud that he <em>\u201cdid my part to help alleviate it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on Durov\u2019s revelation, US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said on X (formerly Twitter) that having 100 biological children was <em>\u201crookie numbers,\u201d<\/em> jokingly attributing the quote to Genghis Khan. Historians claim the 11th-century Mongol ruler was estimated to have had between several hundred to a thousand or more biological children.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July, Musk refuted claims by the New York Times that he had volunteered his sperm to help populate a future Martian colony.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has fathered 12 kids with three women, and welcomed a new baby with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis earlier this year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram founder Pavel Durov says he is a sperm donor, helping to conceive over 100 children around the world Read Full Article at RT.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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