
9 Lessons I Learned from Pavel Durov about Freedom, Tech, and Resilience (eBook, ePUB)
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In the summer of 2014, a quiet exodus began. Pavel Durov, the founder of VKontakte, Russia's version of Facebook, left his homeland under circumstances that read more like a parable than a news report. He had refused to hand over user data to the government. He had refused to silence dissent. And then, almost overnight, he was gone. No farewell press conference, no long goodbye. Just a man walking away from everything he had built, with little more than a suitcase, a passport, and the unshakable conviction that freedom is worth more than ownership. There is something about Durov's story that d...
In the summer of 2014, a quiet exodus began. Pavel Durov, the founder of VKontakte, Russia's version of Facebook, left his homeland under circumstances that read more like a parable than a news report. He had refused to hand over user data to the government. He had refused to silence dissent. And then, almost overnight, he was gone. No farewell press conference, no long goodbye. Just a man walking away from everything he had built, with little more than a suitcase, a passport, and the unshakable conviction that freedom is worth more than ownership. There is something about Durov's story that doesn't fit neatly into the narrative of modern tech founders. He doesn't have the charisma of Steve Jobs, the obsessive perfectionism of Elon Musk, or the calculated charm of Mark Zuckerberg. Instead, Durov carries himself like a wandering philosopher, part revolutionary, part minimalist monk. He has been called the "Russian Zuckerberg," but that comparison misses the point. Where Zuckerberg thrives on influence and scale, Durov thrives on distance and principle. His power comes not from proximity to politics or capital, but from the ability to walk away from both. When we look at the great innovators of our time, we tend to focus on their inventions: the iPhone, the electric car, the social network. But inventions are rarely just about technology.
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