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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

Yuri Milner

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Yuri Milner
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: November 11
Entrepreneur
Physicist
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Yuri Borisovich Milner
Yuri Bentsionovich Milner
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The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen.
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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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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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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’s not how much something’s worth today, it’s what it’s worth in five or 10 years.
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The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.
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I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?
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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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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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There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
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There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind
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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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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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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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I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.
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You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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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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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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