Pavel Durov is trying to demonstrate the maximum financial efficiency of the project before the IPO.
🎁 In messenger, the rating is calculated not from social activity: number of messages, chats, etc., but from money spent! As one of my coworkers accurately noted, it's as if Telegram is not a messenger but a marketplace.
💡 Everything makes sense: in 2020 Salesforce acquired messenger Slack for 27.7 billion, while Amazon is valued at 2.5 trillion, that is 90 times more.
📈 Just now there was discussion of a possible valuation of Telegram at IPO of 30 billion, which is clearly too low. Here we need to show that Telegram is incredibly successful as a business, so financial metrics come to the forefront everywhere.
