Yuri Milner

Investor

1961-11-11

Yuri Milner is a Soviet-born Israeli technology investor and entrepreneur, known for founding DST Global and backing major internet companies. He also co-founded the Breakthrough Prize and major science initiatives.

Quotes by Yuri Milner

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.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.
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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 invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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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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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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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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