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Harsh Dwivedi
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Medial • 6m

Telegram is now profitable 🏆 📈 This year, the number of Telegram Premium subscribers tripled, exceeding 12 million. Our ad revenue also increased a few times. Telegram's total revenue in 2024 surpassed $1 billion, and we are closing the year with more than $500 million in cash reserves, not including crypto assets 🪙 🏦 Over the past four years, Telegram has issued about $2 billion in debt. We repaid a meaningful share of it this Fall, taking advantage of favorable prices for the Telegram bonds. But there’s a lot of work ahead 👨‍💻 🔬 Our innovations in monetization this year (⭐️Stars, 🎁 Gifts, 🪙Giveaways, 🖥 Mini Apps, 🤝the Affiliate Platform, 💼Telegram Business, and 📥Telegram Gateway) demonstrate that social media platforms can achieve financial sustainability while staying independent and respecting users' rights 💪 From Pavel on X

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sabrina collins

Hey I am on Medial • 3m

it's good

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Abhishek Yadav

Software Developer • 6m

The most important thing they did was integration of Ton with Telegram and introduction of mini apps.

Anonymous 7

Hey I am on Medial • 6m

Gazab bro, 5 dollars from 1B people every month is such a solid number for a company of their size. Legendary stuff

Anonymous 6

Hey I am on Medial • 6m

Baapre it wasnt profitble all this while?

Anonymous 5

Hey I am on Medial • 6m

Arey how can a team of 30 people with around 1B users make just enough to now go profitable after 11 years?

Anonymous 4

Hey I am on Medial • 6m

Finally! But let's talk about how they did it - Telegram monetized without destroying the core product (looking at you, Meta). Premium features actually ADD value instead of paywalling existing ones. This is how you do sustainable monetization.

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The NineHertz • 6m

Mini Apps are forcing users to buy premium 😕 and mini apps also looting money in the form of TON coin (crypto).

Anonymous 3

Hey I am on Medial • 6m

The Mini Apps ecosystem is genius. While everyone's trying to be a super app through acquisitions (looking at you X), Telegram built a platform where developers do the work. Their revenue share is way better than Apple/Google's 30% cut too.

Anonymous 2

Hey I am on Medial • 6m

Woah!!

Anonymous 1

Hey I am on Medial • 6m

"Respecting users' rights" while sitting on $500M in cash + crypto? Let's be real - their servers are still closed source, and we have zero transparency about data handling. Signal remains the only truly privacy-focused platform.

Havish Gupta

Figuring Out • 6m

That's awesome!

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