Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov says he has over '100 Biological kids'
A co-founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app has claimed that he has over 100 biological children but he is still unmarried.
Explaining the situation on Telegram, Pavel Durov, said that he had started donating sperm 15 years ago at the request of his friend.
The Russian-born IT entrepreneur said, "He (his friend) said that he and his wife couldn’t 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."
He quoted doctors as saying that “high quality donor material was in short supply” and that it was his “civic duty” to donate sperm anonymously to help more couples. “This sounded crazy enough to get me to sign up for sperm donation.”
He further stated that his donations had helped a hundred couples in 1 countries to conceive kids and still today one IVF clinic has frozen sperm available so that other family can use them in future.
“My 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.”
Durov, who is unmarried, says he realizes “there are risks” but doesn’t regret having been a donor.
A shortage of healthy sperm has become an increasingly serious issue worldwide, Durov lamented, adding that he is proud that he “did my part to help alleviate it.”
Commenting on Durov’s revelation, Elon Musk , who has 12 children, said on X (formerly Twitter) that having 100 biological children was “rookie numbers,” 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.
Musk has fathered 12 kids with three women, and welcomed a new baby with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis earlier this year.
Source: Times of India
