Pavel Durov has revealed he was a prolific sperm donor, serving to {couples} in 12 international locations conceive
Pavel Durov, the founding father of the Telegram messaging app, has revealed that he has fathered over 100 kids in 12 international locations by means of sperm donations.
The Russian-born IT entrepreneur mentioned he began donating sperm 15 years in the past when a buddy approached him with a request that appeared uncommon at first.
“He mentioned that he and his spouse couldn’t have children attributable to a fertility subject and requested me to donate sperm at a clinic for them to have a child. I laughed my ass off earlier than realizing he was lifeless critical,” Durov defined in a Telegram put up.
He quoted docs as saying that “top quality donor materials was briefly provide” and that it was his “civic obligation” to donate sperm anonymously to assist extra {couples}. “This sounded loopy sufficient to get me to join sperm donation.”
Durov mentioned he now intends to reveal his DNA code to make it simpler for his organic kids to seek out one another. “My previous donating exercise has helped over 100 {couples} in 12 international locations to have children. Furthermore, a few years after I finished being a donor, at the least one IVF clinic nonetheless has my frozen sperm accessible for nameless use by households who need to have children.”
Durov, who’s single, says he realizes “there are dangers” however doesn’t remorse having been a donor.
A scarcity of wholesome sperm has turn out to be an more and more critical subject worldwide, Durov lamented, including that he’s proud that he “did my half to assist alleviate it.”
Commenting on Durov’s revelation, US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk mentioned on X (previously Twitter) that having 100 organic kids was “rookie numbers,” jokingly attributing the quote to Genghis Khan. Historians declare the Eleventh-century Mongol ruler was estimated to have had between a number of hundred to a thousand or extra organic kids.
Earlier in July, Musk refuted claims by the New York Occasions that he had volunteered his sperm to assist populate a future Martian colony.
Musk has fathered 12 children with three ladies, and welcomed a brand new child with Neuralink govt Shivon Zilis earlier this 12 months.
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