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Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner (Russian: Юрий Борисович (Бенционович) Мильнер; born 11 November 1961) is a Soviet-born Israeli entrepreneur, investor, physicist and scientist.
3 days ago · In five years physics geek Yuri Milner has nearly quadrupled his investment by picking the world’s biggest web hits. Here’s how he cracked open China, and why he’s still losing sleep over ...
Yuri Milner is an Israeli technology investor and science philanthropist. Both scientists and tech entrepreneurs ask big questions about reality – the physical, biological and social worlds – and imagine solutions.
Yuri Milner (born November 11, 1961, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) is a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist whose innovative investment techniques and prescient awareness of the commercial potential of the Internet revolutionized venture-capital investment strategies in the 2010s. Milner grew up in a Jewish family in Moscow.
Mar 9, 2011 · Yuri Milner was born into a family of Moscow intellectuals. His father, Boris, was a professor specializing in American management practices. His mother, Betty, worked at the capital's...
Yuri Milner. Yuri was born in Moscow in 1961 to a Ukrainian-Jewish father and a Russian-Jewish mother. In 1985 Yuri graduated in theoretical physics from Moscow State University. In 1990 he became one of the first students from the Soviet Union to study in the United States, and the first to attend the Wharton School of Business.
Yuri Milner is a technology investor and science philanthropist, and the founder of the Breakthrough Initiatives. Growing up in the 1960s, he read Iosif Shklovsky and Carl Sagan’s book Intelligent Life in the Universe, which sparked a lifelong fascination with the subject.
