Telegram vice president jokes about Golden Horde and Silicon Valley

A fragment of the speech published on Twitter.

“It turns out that earlier in Tatarstan there was a rate of the Golden Horde and everyone brought tribute to Tatarstan. And now there is such a rate somewhere in San Francisco, near the Golden Bridge, and everyone brings tribute there, ”he said.

According to him, this holds back the development of the information technology industry in the world, and especially in Russia.

Perekopsky from Telegram compared the Tatar yoke and silicon valley. Minnikhanov and Mishustin laughed pic.twitter.com/sDkcIc0pM9

On July 9, Telegram founder Pavel Durov published an article stating that Apple, taking advantage of its monopoly position, requires all application developers in the AppStore to transfer to it 30% of the turnover from the sale of any digital services.

According to him, all the developers of the world who sell premium and digital services to smartphone users, in fact, work for Apple and Google to a greater extent than for themselves.

As a result, says Durov, Apple and Google "accumulate tens of billions of dollars in their offshore accounts," while hundreds of thousands of local development teams around the world are on the verge of economic survival.

In early May, Durov identified seven reasons not to move to Silicon Valley.