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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.
~ Yuri Milner
About
Become
Bottom
Bottom Line
Business
Digital
Economics
Fundamental
Line
Margins
Revenues
Scale
Top
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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
Five
How
How Much
Much
Something
Today
Worth
Years
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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.
~ Yuri Milner
China
Companies
Facebook
Fund
Help
Hope
Innovation
Investor
Produce
Proud
Scale
Top
Will
Works
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
~ Yuri Milner
Background
Close
Heart
Physics
Something
Theoretical
Very
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One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.
~ Yuri Milner
Between
Cannot
Companies
Explained
Facebook
Increased
Information
Invested
Joining
New
New People
Only
People
Times
Two
Years
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Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
~ Yuri Milner
Domestic
Driven
Networks
Now
Places
Players
Presence
Right
Russia
Significant
Social
Social Networks
Where
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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.
~ Yuri Milner
Able
Accurate
Amazing
Been
Born
Defines
Far
Get
Gives
Handful
How
How Far
I Think
Important
Many
Our
Perspective
Predictions
Really
Science
Special
Species
Things
Think
Understanding
Universe
Us
Very
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
~ Yuri Milner
Better
Better Way
Change
Digital
Digital World
Everything
Implications
Interact
Search
Social
Than
Total
Way
World
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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.
~ Yuri Milner
Billions
Brain
Civilization
Concentration
Creating
Develop
Embrace
Emerged
Facebook
First
Helped
High
Huge
Human
Human Brain
Human Civilization
Hundreds
Million
Network
Next
Next Step
Now
People
Population
Possibly
Social
Started
Step
Story
Where
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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.
~ Yuri Milner
Able
Company
Competition
Creates
Facebook
Forward
Global
Going
Graph
Important
Local
Long
Long-Term
Maybe
Networks
Social
Social Networks
Sustain
Term
Very
Will
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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
1 Percent
Assuming
Basis
Daily
Daily Basis
Extremely
Important
Journal
Kind
Largest
Newspaper
Newspapers
Only
Other
Percent
Population
Reaching
States
Street
Street Journal
Today
United
United States
USA
USA Today
Very
Wall
Wall Street
Wall Street Journal
Yes
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The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.
~ Yuri Milner
Advanced
Become
Big
Complicated
Disconnect
Far
Fundamental
Least
Mathematics
Me
Modern
More
Most
Much
Need
People
Physics
Problem
Really
Understand
Understanding
Years
You
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
~ Yuri Milner
About
Behind
Enthusiastic
Internet
Investors
Momentum
Public
Range
Significant
Social
Very
Were
Wide
Wide Range
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There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
~ Yuri Milner
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Demand
Huge
Intelligence
Technologies
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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.
~ Yuri Milner
Arena
Close
Companies
Company
Global
Globally
Internet
Investment
Like
Monitor
Opportunities
Potential
See
Significant
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
~ Yuri Milner
Facebook
Investments
Made
Only
Three
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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.
~ Yuri Milner
Billion
Connected
Few
Important
Information
More
People
Screens
Thousand
Thousand Times
Times
Transmit
Voice
You
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You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.
~ Yuri Milner
Edge
Globally
Going
Know
Maintain
Today
Travel
You
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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.
~ Yuri Milner
Accounts
Among
Countries
Edge
Exactly
Exposure
Kind
Know
Language
Local
Lot
Multiple
Networks
Other
Other Countries
People
Place
Russia
Skills
Some
States
Travel
United
United States
Who
You
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