# Pavel Durov (slim)

> Pavel Durov is founder and CEO of Telegram. Telegram Bot API on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder and CEO, Telegram.

Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram, which he developed with his brother Nikolai in 2013 and has financed for most of its history.

## What Pavel builds

- [Telegram Bot API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/telegram-bot.md), graded E, 43/100, in Messaging APIs. The Telegram Bot API is Telegram's HTTP interface for bot accounts. A bot sends and edits messages, media and polls, manages chats and takes payments, and receives user messages by long polling or webhook, with a token issued by @BotFather. Founder and CEO, Telegram, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Aliaksei Levin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aliaksei-levin/), Telegram Bot API server contributor/maintainer (GitHub: levlam)
- [Nikolai Durov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nikolai-durov/), Co-founder, Telegram

## Questions

### Who is Pavel Durov?

Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram, which he developed with his brother Nikolai in 2013 and has financed for most of its history.

### What does Telegram Messenger Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Telegram Bot API from Telegram Messenger Inc..

### How are Pavel's tools graded?

Telegram Bot API is graded E, 43 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://github.com/tdlib/telegram-bot-api
- https://github.com/levlam
- https://github.com/tdlib/telegram-bot-api/commit/e3e9dd8e5b3d7ab8537cd5a10dc31d5ffa8f82d1
- https://telegram.org/faq
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/telegram-messenger
- https://core.telegram.org/bots/faq
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Durov

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