Pavel Durov says Telegram has 900M users, hopes “to become profitable next year, if not this year”, was “offered $30B+ valuations” by VCs, and considers an IPO (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Pavel Durov says Telegram has 900M users, hopes “to become profitable next year, if not this year”, was “offered $30B+ valuations” by VCs, and considers an IPO  —  In rare interview, Pavel Durov says secretive messaging app is making ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ from ads business