Yuri Milner
Yuri Milner
Yuri BorisovichMilnerМи́льнер; born 11 November 1961) is a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. He founded investment firms Digital Sky Technologies, 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, Habito, Wish and many others. Milner's personal investments also include a stake in 23andMe and Beepi...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth11 November 1961
CountryRussian Federation
There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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.
Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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.
There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
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.
Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
You can transmit a thousand times more information.
Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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,