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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.
Yuri Milner
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Yuri Milner
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: November 11
Entrepreneur
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Yuri Borisovich Milner
Yuri Bentsionovich Milner
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