Sperm Donation: Telegram CEO Claims He Has Over 100 Children

39-Year-Old Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, has revealed a hotshot on his own platform, Tuesday, claiming to have over 100 children through sperm donation.

Durov narrated that he was convinced by a friend fifteen years ago to donate his sperm to him and his wife to aid their childbirth since they had fertility issues.

“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,” Durov wrote.

The clinic’s director apparently told Durov that “high quality donor material” was scarce and framed donation as a “civic duty.” This pitch, bizarre as it sounded to Durov, led him to sign up for regular donations. Fast forward to 2024, and Durov claims his contributions have helped over 100 couples across 12 countries conceive children.

Elon Musk, who’s also a fan of making babies, responded to Durov’s revelation with a tweet: “Rookie numbers,” he said while mentioning Gengis Khan, who had over 100 children with nearly 500 wives. Musk himself is father to 12 known children, though not through sperm donation

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He declared his intentions to open-source his DNA so that his biological children could easily find each other.

Pavel expressed pride in himself in being able to donate to help the issue of shortage of healthy sperm around the world.