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Telegram has a broken business model from the start. It doesn't make money and it's not sustainable. Somebody could take over telegram and start a pretty simil
by sdfhbdf 6y ago
Telegram has a broken business model from the start. It doesn't make money and it's not sustainable.
Somebody could take over telegram and start a pretty similar service to facebook since most of the chats are not encrypted. So if Durov were not to lead his vision of 100% free Telegram it might get really bad. A service ran on savings of the founder as philantropic as he is is not sustainable. They will either pivot to ads, to profiling or something paid subscription any of which will probably not be received well.
You can see more here: https://fourweekmba.com/telegram-business-model/ https://fourweekmba.com/telegram-business-model/
- pdimitar 6y agoThey recently did pivot to ads but only in certain chats -- for most users nothing will change. And I am glad they did because I want them to survive. Also, Durov has been strongly resistant both to censorship and takeover attempts so far. Which is more than I could say for your average SV startup. I am siding with Telegram still. They have proven themselves many times over and I can only hope that this will continue.
- sdfhbdf 6y agoStarted with certain chats and will end with probably full on profiling since it's the most profitable
- pdimitar 6y agoWell, then we'll migrate away to another service -- choice isn't big these days, but it does exist still. That always happened so I am not sure I can stand behind your firm pessimism about them currently.
- fsflover 6y agoThis is true for every app in the list except Matrix, which is distributed.