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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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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