Telegram’s Pavel Durov is about to achieve a strange achievement: becoming a global father

Pavel Durov has made more news outside of Telegram than about working with its famous messaging app as it has been under investigation in recent months French justice for legal problems with its platform. And now he’s going to do more.

It turns out that the Russian-born businessman wants to be the most prolific father in the world, or at least give hundreds of women the opportunity to fulfill their dream of becoming mothers through in vitro fertilization.

Durov wants to donate his sperm en masse to all women who request it through a Russian clinic.

“You can undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) completely free of charge, using donor sperm from Pavel Durov, one of the most famous and successful entrepreneurs of our time,” AltraVita IVF clinic, based in Moscow, recently announced on its website. . Interested women under 37 years of age should call or email the clinic, the website says, noting there is a “limited number of spots available” for this special offer.

This is not the first time the Telegram CEO has made news on this matter, as in the past He has previously claimed that his sperm has “fathered” more than 100 children in 12 different countries. He said he eventually plans to “unlock the source” of his DNA so all his children around the world can find it.

The clinic claims that Durov will pay for “all IVF protocols that use his sperm.”