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It’s not how much something’s worth today, it’s what it’s worth in five or 10 years.

Yuri Milner

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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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