Telegram Billionaire Plans to Leave Fortune to His 100-Plus Children

Pavel Durov’s heirs will have to wait 30 years to receive the money.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov says he will give away all his wealth to his kids—all 100 plus of them.

Durov, who has an estimated $17.1 billion fortune, 40, has been a sperm donor for many years and has six children conceived naturally with three partners. None will have access to their inheritance until 2055.

Durov isn’t the only tech titan to talk openly about having his large family. Elon Musk has done so, too—becoming one of the loudest proponents in Silicon Valley of pronatalism, an effort to increase the world’s birthrate and develop new fertility technology.