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1. 30 Sept 2025

   Our readingArresting Pavel Durov was a historic wrong and a gigantic PR mistake that will keep founders from building in France.

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   Their wordsI think this situation, this historic wrong that’s been done is, put simply, is just a gigantic PR mistake for France. There’s no entrepreneur that sees, that aspires to be the next Pavel Durov to create the next Telegram, sees this and wants to operate in France after seeing this.

   ↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 18th of 28 in this recording