Yuri Milner

The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too…

— Yuri Milner

Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

— Yuri Milner

The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local…

— Yuri Milner

It’s not how much something’s worth today, it’s what it’s worth in five or 10 years.

— Yuri Milner

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…

— Yuri Milner

You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.

— Yuri Milner

I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.

— Yuri Milner

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

— Yuri Milner

I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and…

— Yuri Milner

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

— Yuri Milner

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more…

— Yuri Milner

The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street…

— Yuri Milner

Facebook is a platform inside a platform.

— Yuri Milner

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…

— Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

— Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global…

— Yuri Milner

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

— Yuri Milner

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

— Yuri Milner

Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20…

— Yuri Milner

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more…

— Yuri Milner

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will…

— Yuri Milner

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they…

— Yuri Milner

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

The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated…

— Yuri Milner

I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true…

— Yuri Milner