Telegram CEO claims he has over ‘100 biological kids’; Elon Musk reacts: ‘Genghis Khan’
The Telegram CEO claimed that an IVF clinic still has his frozen sperm.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov found that he was high-quality sperm donor material (Image source: Collage created by Express)
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov found that he was high-quality sperm donor material (Image source: Collage created by Express)
Pavel Durov, the CEO and co-founder of Telegram, took the Internet by storm after he claimed he has over a hundred “biological kids” in 12 countries. In a lengthy post on Telegram, the 32-year-old shared that he had been an active sperm donor.
Reacting to an X post that shared the screenshot of Durov’s post, Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote, “Rookie numbers lmao – Genghis Khan.”
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Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, is known to have fathered many children. A research paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics titled “The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols” found that 0.5 per cent of the world’s male population were Khan’s genetic descendants.
Pavel Durov’s claims
In his Telegram post, Durov shared he began donating his sperm 15 years ago. “Fifteen years ago, a friend of mine approached me with a weird request. He 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 realising he was dead serious,” he wrote.
When he visited a clinic to donate his sperm, he found that he was “high-quality donor material”, following which he decided to donate regularly. He wrote that he has stopped donation, and that an IVF clinic still has his frozen sperm. Durov also wrote he plans to open-source his DNA so that his biological children can find each other more easily.
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“Of course, there are risks, but I don’t regret having been a donor. The shortage of healthy sperm has become an increasingly serious issue worldwide, and I’m proud that I did my part to help alleviate it,” he wrote in the post.
