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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.
Yuri Milner
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Yuri Milner
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: November 11
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Yuri Borisovich Milner
Yuri Bentsionovich Milner
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