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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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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 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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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.
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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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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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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.
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There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind
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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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The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen.
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It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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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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There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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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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The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.
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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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