It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assem...
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.
When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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.
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.
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 peo...
We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
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 ...
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.
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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.
Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
