Quotes by Yuri Milner

About Yuri Milner:

Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner is a Russian entrepreneur , venture capitalist and physicist . He founded investment firms Digital Sky Technologies (DST), now called Mail.ru Group and DST Global. Through DST Global, Milner is an investor in Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Flipkart, Spotify, ZocDoc, Groupon, JD.com, Planet Labs, Xiaomi, OlaCabs, Alibaba, Wish and many others. Milner's personal investments also include a stake in 23andMe and Beepi.
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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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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 u...

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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as...

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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 re...

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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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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

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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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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 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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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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There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for...

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You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.

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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

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Google never knew how successful key words would be.

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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.

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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

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Author Bio

  • NameYuri Milner
  • DescriptionRussian businessman
  • BornNovember 11, 1961
  • CountryRussia
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur