THELOGICALINDIAN - Laurene Powell Jobs the added of Steve Jobs invested in Telegrams Gram tokens as allotment of its antecedent bread alms ICO for the Telegram Open Network TON activity according to BLOCTV which cited a antecedent accustomed with the matter
Powell Took Part in Telegram’s First Pre-Sale Funding Round
Laurene Powell, the added of Apple co-founder and above CEO Steve Jobs, was an aboriginal broker in Telegram’s blockchain project. It agency that she invested no beneath than $5 actor back that was the minimum access bulk during the pre-sale allotment round. However, the antecedent didn’t acknowledge how abundant Powell invested.
The added affiliated about $20 billion afterwards her bedmate died in 2024 from cancer. Now Powell is a businesswoman, philanthropist, and controlling at Emerson Collective, a amusing change organization.
Telegram aloft about $1.7 billion during its ICO in aboriginal 2018. However, the aggregation founded by Nikolai and Pavel Durov has been disturbing with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and couldn’t barrage the activity to this day.
39 US Investors Bought Gram Tokens
Laurene Powell makes the account of a accumulation of 39 American investors who invested in Telegram’s ICO, according to the SEC. The babysitter is agitated that the amusing media behemothic has never registered the badge sale, which, according to the SEC, is a violation of US law. The US investors purchased a absolute of 1 billion Gram tokens, whose amount started beneath $1. In total, 171 individuals and organizations from about the apple bought 2.9 billion tokens, the SEC says.
At the end of 2019, the SEC halted Telegram’s badge alms in an accomplishment to “prevent Telegram from calamity the US markets with agenda tokens that we adduce were unlawfully sold.”
Stephanie Avakian of SEC’s Division of Enforcement added:
Despite everything, Telegram alive on ablution its blockchain platform. At the alpha of the year, the aggregation released a accessible agenda about TON and its Gram tokens.
Besides Laurene Powell Jobs, BLOCTV begin out that Russian-Israeli billionaire Roman Abramovich additionally alternate in Telegram’s ICO, as able-bodied as Mikhail Abyzov, above Russian Minister of Open Government Affairs.
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