Yuri Milner Quotes
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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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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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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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.
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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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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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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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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
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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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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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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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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.
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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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.
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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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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
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It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.