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Yuri Milner
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: November 11
Entrepreneur
Physicist
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Yuri Borisovich Milner
Yuri Bentsionovich Milner
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There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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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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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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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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Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
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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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Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
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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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You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.
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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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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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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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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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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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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
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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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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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