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I hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network.

Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product.

People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.

If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.

When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product.

We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it.

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.

What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.

I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.

I want to do one thing and do it well.

People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.

Be simple and reliable

Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up for data plans.

I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.

I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.

Everybody who wants to join 'WhatsApp', we'll go out of our way to build a really awesome client for them.

WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.

On my iPhone 3GS, I use 'Instagram', 'Twitter' and 'Touch'.

Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.

I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas.

The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line.

A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.