PROFILE: 'Russian Facebook' VKontakte's Pavel Durov
Digital Sky Technologies, a major investor in Facebook, has social networking covered in its home country, as DST owns almost a quarter of Russian Facebook clone VKontakte.
Digital Sky Technologies, a major investor in Facebook, has social networking covered in its home country, as the company also owns almost a quarter of Russian Facebook clone VKontakte.
Forbes Russia recently profiled Pavel Durov, the 26-year-old founder of the Russian social network, which boasts more than 2.7 million users, earns roughly $10 million per month, and has a value of nearly $2 billion.
However, Forbes Russia added that VKontakte is also under fire from content rights holders for allowing widespread sharing.
Some quotes from Durov, roughly translated by Google Chrome from the Forbes Russia item:
For me, money is totally virtual units that are meaningless to discuss in isolation from the real important things.
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