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Harsh Dwivedi
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Medial • 14h

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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Anonymous 7

Stealth • 5h

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

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Anonymous 6

Stealth • 7h

Baapre it wasnt profitble all this while?

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Anonymous 5

Stealth • 8h

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

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Anonymous 4

Stealth • 13h

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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Anonymous 3

Stealth • 14h

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.

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Anonymous 2

Stealth • 14h

Woah!!

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Anonymous 1

Stealth • 14h

"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.

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Havish Gupta

Stealth • 14h

That's awesome!

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