Yuri Milner
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age 55; lives in Los Altos Hills;</p>
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physicist and MBA Wharton.</p>
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VC; worth 4 billion. (see notes from Seth) tech investor.</p>
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DST = digital sky tech.</p>
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invested in FB, Zynga, Twitter, AirBnB... 23andMe...</p>
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2017 100 greaest living biz minds. same with Fortune and Forbes and TIME and Foreign Policy
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Jewish. dad: Milner: management and Direc of Economics of Russ. Academy of Sci.
Betty Milner: mom; virologist.</p>
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theor physics.</p>
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friend of Sakharov.</p>
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1990 Milner first non emire from Soviet Union! ro get Wharton MBA.</p>
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1990s Wrold Bank in DC as Russ bank specialist.</p>
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worked for Khodorkovsky.</p>
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Russ govt defaulted on GKO bonds in 1998.</p>
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2009 in palo alto met Zuck. DST bot 2% of FB for 200M .</p>
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2017 Nov 5: NYT: Kremlin backing for FB and Twit investments.</p>
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* BREAKTHROUGH *</p>
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