Open in TheBrain

Yuri Milner

<p>Nov 07, 2017 09:37 PM</p>

<p>

age 55; &nbsp;lives in Los Altos Hills;</p>

<p>

physicist and MBA &nbsp;Wharton.</p>

<p>

VC; &nbsp;&nbsp;worth &nbsp;&nbsp;4 billion. &nbsp;(see notes from Seth) &nbsp;tech investor.</p>

<p>

DST = digital sky tech.</p>

<p>

invested in FB, Zynga, Twitter, &nbsp;AirBnB... &nbsp;23andMe...</p>

<p>

2017 &nbsp;&nbsp;100 greaest living biz minds. &nbsp;same with Fortune and Forbes and TIME and Foreign Policy

and Bloomberg.</p>

<p>

Jewish. &nbsp;&nbsp;dad: &nbsp;Milner: &nbsp;management &nbsp;and &nbsp;Direc of &nbsp;Economics of &nbsp;Russ. Academy of Sci.

Betty Milner: mom; &nbsp;virologist.</p>

<p>

theor &nbsp;&nbsp;physics.</p>

<p>

friend of Sakharov.</p>

<p>

1990 &nbsp;Milner &nbsp;first non emire from Soviet Union! &nbsp;ro get Wharton MBA.</p>

<p>

1990s &nbsp;&nbsp;Wrold Bank in DC as Russ bank specialist.</p>

<p>

worked for Khodorkovsky.</p>

<p>

Russ govt &nbsp;defaulted on &nbsp;GKO bonds in 1998.</p>

<p>

2009 in palo alto met Zuck. &nbsp;&nbsp;DST bot &nbsp;&nbsp;2% of FB for &nbsp;200M .</p>

<p>

2017 &nbsp;Nov 5: &nbsp;NYT: &nbsp;Kremlin backing for FB and Twit investments.</p>

<p>

* BREAKTHROUGH *</p>

<p>

&nbsp;</p>

<p>

&nbsp;</p>

<p>

&nbsp;</p>

<p>

&nbsp;</p>

Attachments