It wasn't that hard for Whatsapp: - Provide excellent clients. - Promise to take payments and not mine data or show ads. - Use few but smart employees. - Pr

It wasn't that hard for Whatsapp: - Provide excellent clients. - Promise to take payments and not mine data or show ads. - Use few but smart employees. - Profit. Telegram managed to get this right too, and I'm disappointed with both of them for now, Whatsapp for selling out and Telegram for starting yet another crypto currency. Both managed thanks to people going around selling it. At the point were I - either need more than mail envelope security (protection against causual snooping by local mail delivery) - or were Signal or Matrix becomes equally usable as Telegram I'll be happy to move, as will many others I think. Provide a better messaging systems - and this time show me up front how you won't get away legally with selling out for > 10 Billion USD - tell me about it and watch me sell it. PS: protip: do charge reasonable payments like Whatsapp did! Or sell API access or something that makes you aligned with the users instead of investors.