Zitat des Tages von Yuri Milner:
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
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.
We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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.
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.
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.
Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.
Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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.
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.
I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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.
Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
