(WSJ) – Telegram founder Pavel Durov will cover IVF costs for women who want to use his donated sperm, and has promised his offspring a share of his fortune

The Russian-born CEO said in his post in July 2024 that he started donating sperm sometime around 2010. At first, he gave to a friend trying to conceive a child, and then anonymously, to alleviate a shortage of “high-quality donor material.” 

Although he had stopped donating years ago, he wrote, his frozen sperm was still available at the AltraVita clinic.

This past summer, Durov sweetened the deal during an interview with a French magazine, announcing that his biological children would receive an equal share of his inheritance. (Read More)