Russian - Businessman | November 11, 1961 -
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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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
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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 human beings.
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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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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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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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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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Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
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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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We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.
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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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