Yuri Milner, our cover subject and a newly minted billionaire, is just now making his mark.
In early December I was at a conference in Monaco and Yuri Milner was the star.
Today, Yuri Milner, Alisher Usmanov and their DST partners have become the favorites of Silicon Valley start-ups.
The award is the brainchild of billionaire Yuri Milner, an early Facebook investor, who gives a similar prize in physics.
Investors in the company include Y Combinator and Yuri Milner among others.
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From the driver, he learned that an associate of Yuri Milner was already on his way to New York to talk to him.
Colliers findings are exemplified by the news that Russian finance billionaire Yuri Milner is reportedly opening an office in Hong Kong, too.
Eric recently played a critical role in reporting major stories about Peter Thiel and Yuri Milner, both hugely successful VCs and FORBES billionaires.
Yuri Milner , the billionaire Russian investor who manages investments in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon, has finally bought himself a swanky new pad in Silicon Valley.
Conway said SV Angel and Yuri Milner are continuing their investment in this next round of Y Combinator start-ups, which are often though not always first-time entrepreneurs.
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Midas List members Peter Thiel and Yuri Milner are two other venture capitalists who can attribute the majority of their wealth to a certain golden touch with Facebook.
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Yuri Milner, the Russian investor whose early bet on Facebook Inc. made him a billionaire, sees the social network as one of three websites that will endure for 100 years.
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Russian internet investor Yuri Milner is famous for his splashy investments in social companies and recently made headlines with the public offering of his own social networking company Mail.ru.
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With a seed round that large, there are not surprisingly an army of investors, including funds such as Thomvest Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Yuri Milner, Phenomenon Ventures, TMT Investments, DominateFund and FundersClub.
Facebook billionaires Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker, and Yuri Milner are among the Silicon Valley heavy hitters in Paris today and tomorrow as French president Nicolas Sarkozy pushes for new internet privacy regulations.
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Unfortunately for Western investors, many missed out on the rise of social networks like Vkontakte (25 million users) and Odnoklassniki.ru (15 million users), leaving local investors like Yuri Milner to pick up the spoils.
Also joining him in the world ranks are his cofounders Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskovitz, its first president Sean Parker (played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network) and the Russian Internet investor Yuri Milner.
While the panel onstage included Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and billionaire investor Yuri Milner discussing awards greater in monetary value than the Nobel Prize for medicine, cameras in the crowd turned to focus on Brin and the device wrapped around his head.
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