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Yuri Milner
Russian
Businessman
Born:
Nov 11
,
1961
Facebook
Important
People
Think
World
You
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It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
Yuri Milner
Today
Worth
Something
How
How Much
Years
Five
Much
I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
Yuri Milner
World
Corners
Various
Learn
Trying
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.
Yuri Milner
Time
Change
Facebook
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Way
Develop
Over
Forefront
Artificial
Being
Information
Processed
Company
Fundamentally
Basis
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?
Yuri Milner
Future
Will
Three
Analyze
Statement
Must
Impact
Make
Years
Five
Want
Now
Two
Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
Yuri Milner
Facebook
Would
Would-Be
Know
How
Successful
Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
Yuri Milner
Future
You
Facebook
People
Important
About
More
Could
Know
Mostly
Less
Now
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
Yuri Milner
Facebook
Accumulate
Different
I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
Yuri Milner
Opportunities
Focused
New
New Opportunities
Just
Exploring
We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
Yuri Milner
Facebook
Made
Three
Only
Investments
My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
Yuri Milner
Heart
Physics
Background
Something
Very
Close
Theoretical
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.
Yuri Milner
Life
Art
Daily
You
Physics
World
Universe
Mine
Defines
About
More
More Or Less
Like
Remote
How
Came
Very
Human
Being
Human Beings
Anything
Us
Use
Your
Less
Beings
Fundamental
Daily Life
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.
Yuri Milner
Facebook
World
Will
Somebody
Somewhere
Answer
Question
Accumulate
Different
Translated
Ask
Languages
Many
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
Yuri Milner
Facebook
People
First
Hundreds
High
Possibly
Embrace
Emerged
Propel
Network
Civilization
Develop
Step
Concentration
Brain
Huge
Human
Where
Human Brain
Human Civilization
Story
Social
Next
Creating
Next Step
Helped
Billions
Population
Now
Million
Started
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.
Yuri Milner
Life
You
Age
Facebook
Entrepreneur
Year
Every
Market
Has-Been
Ratio
Divide
Investors
Making
Been
His
Cap
Billion
Company
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.
Yuri Milner
Opportunities
Internet
Significant
See
Potential
Arena
Investment
Like
Global
Globally
Close
Companies
Company
Monitor
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.
Yuri Milner
Science
Amazing
Perspective
Important
Understanding
Think
Universe
Our
Defines
Able
Born
Gives
How
How Far
Been
Handful
Very
Accurate
Get
Predictions
Far
Us
Really
Special
Many
Species
Things
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.
Yuri Milner
People
World
Black
Think
Assume
Defines
Black Hole
Remote
Practical
Because
Understand
Quest
Human
Human Beings
Hole
Interested
Us
Should
Hard
Many
Beings
Applications
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.
Yuri Milner
Today
Daily
Important
Other
Assuming
Extremely
States
Kind
Percent
Only
Journal
Reaching
Yes
Very
Wall
Wall Street
Wall Street Journal
Newspaper
Newspapers
USA
USA Today
Population
United
Daily Basis
United States
Largest
Street
Street Journal
Basis
Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
Yuri Milner
Facebook
Inside
Platform
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