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Yuri Milner
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: November 11
Entrepreneur
Physicist
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Yuri Borisovich Milner
Yuri Bentsionovich Milner
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The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.
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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
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The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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It’s not how much something’s worth today, it’s what it’s worth in five or 10 years.
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It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind
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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
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