WASHINGTON, April 17 Telegram founder Pavel Durov said in an interview that the creator of the social network Facebook* Mark Zuckerberg tried to borrow his ideas, and told how he and Zuckerberg deceived each other.
Their meeting took place more than ten years ago, when Durov was still living in Russia and developing the VKontakte social network, similar to Facebook*.
«It was an interesting meeting. They tried to copy not what we did, but what I said we did. It was funny,» the entrepreneur said in an interview with American television journalist Tucker Carlson.
Zuckerberg asked Durov if he was going to go global, and Durov asked Zuckerberg if he was thinking about expanding into the market that VKontakte considered its own. Both assured each other that they had no such ambitions.
“After two or three weeks, each of us did just that,” the entrepreneur recalled.
* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist.