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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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You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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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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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind
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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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You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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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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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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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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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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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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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 think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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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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Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.
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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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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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