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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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Yuri Milner
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: November 11
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Yuri Borisovich Milner
Yuri Bentsionovich Milner
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