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In any field there are people who are role models. Whose example is worthy of respect. In the Internet business so schelovekom is considered Yuri Milner. He co-owner of most successful Russian internet projects. And in many of the world has its share.

As I post on its blog, “Interview with Yuri Milner, a Russian businessman number 1 in 2010.” And new stuff. Source here

Forbes journalist Parma Olson (Parmy Olson) had one day with the Russian “techno-billionaire” by Yuri Milner, co-owner and DST Global Mail.ru Group. As a result of this and other meetings, she wrote an article and said in his blog about who inspires 49-year-old entrepreneur, that is his Moscow home, and why he’s still hurt by his older sister. The following is a condensed translation of the journalist notes Forbes.

The original material is called

A Day In The Life Of Yuri Milner, Web Billionaire or A Day in the life of Yuri Milner, Internet billionaire

When I first interviewed Milner in January last year, it was obvious that the former physicist and just got on the list of Forbes Russian billionaire was not averse to reflect on the answers. In general, he stayed relaxed, but carefully, he said with a Russian accent, but with a totally American overtones in his voice, and talk about social networks, almost Zen interspersed with pauses. Everyone who spoke with him, reported that he never tells any excess of their investments, nor the plans for the future.

This time, I met with Milner in Moscow and held him almost the whole day trying to figure out what is this man and what he does. Revealed the following: Milner modestly dressed (blue shirt, dark pants and a sweater with a zipper), prefers to always keep in the background, looks very calm, but it works like a maniac, and incredibly focused in practice. Despite the fact that social networks – the main object of his investment, he Feysbuke only 57 friends on Twitter and he never wrote – composed image, much like the owner of the nightclub, which itself is never fun on the dance floor, because too busy compiling lists of visitors and counting the proceeds.

Milner, Andrew loves the restaurant Dellosa “Manon” on the street in 1905. When we meet there, I ask him about his typical day. He laughs and starts talking about how he gets up at 7:00, about their morning workout, and about how her daughter every day “reported” to him on his success from the previous day – so, in his words, they develop memory (Milner four girls and five years, and they already speak in English and playing chess.)

They say a man can understand a lot on his desk in the office and at his home. In the case of Milner is going to be easy. How to decorate the room did not think the billionaire: it is he has a wife, artist Julia (who, incidentally, do not use Facebook), and it is her paintings and photographs hang on the walls. His work desks in an office and apartment pristine clean – except for phone and cable which can connect to the laptop. Sometimes it even seems that the desk he did not use it. But this does not mean that doing nothing Milner. His day is painted by the minute, it works around the clock three secretaries, who are trying to “utryasti” his schedule.

Moscow House of Milner is also not distracting from the scheme. Its walls are painted in a penthouse deadly bright colors: orange, purple, green. The apartment has huge windows overlooking the city. Marble floors and three fireplaces. But instead of useless ornaments on almost every wall is constantly working flat-screen TV (only in the living room and a residential area there are nine, not counting the three in the home office). On the screens – CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, broadcast mentions DST, Mail.ru and other companies Milner on Twitter, as well as the Discovery Channel: techno-billionaire always feels hunger for information. The talks, he is on the iPhone, and read the blogs on my iPad (mostly at night) notes VCs Fred Wilson’s (Fred Wilson), Bill Gurley (Bill Gurley) and Ben Horowitz (Ben Horowitz), but also looks at the founder of Hacker News Y Combinator Paul Graham (Paul Graham). Graham, he genuinely admires, because he, in his words, “find talent and nurture them, and very devoted to young entrepreneurs.”

Because of the difference in time with the San Francisco Milner works a lot at night, because of which sleeps only 4-5 hours per day. Mode requires sacrifice: man eats only healthy food (grilled salmon, salad, dessert – fruit and low fat cheesecake, “Julia is watching sugar” – he says). At the time of fun, either. The last film that looked Milner, became a “social network” – simply because it required work. Two to three weeks a month he spends in the regular journeys – San Francisco, London, China, but at his country house on the Volga was already almost a year. Surprisingly, the billionaire flies on light is not on frequent business jet, and the most common low cost airlines. And often takes with him his wife and daughters, because otherwise he too rarely see them.

Because of the focus on the work of Milner’s wife calls him a “robot”. A board member Marc Andreessen speaks Facebook Employee DST as a “walking encyclopedia on the Internet business,” and it is not surprising. All who work with Milner, know that its foreign reserve – just a cover for a hectic lifestyle, and if he will call his staff at 2 am with some new idea, it is better to forget about sleep and a few hours to prepare the necessary material to the boss. Maybe that’s why a billionaire prefers to work with young people and says he wants to those who work for him, it was around 25 years – that is, that they were about twice his age. In general, he believes in youth: the current CEO Dmitry Grishin Mail.Ru received from Milner complete freedom at the age of 22 years.

I asked about Milner childhood and adolescence – and now it turns out that he was still a little offended by her older sister, who was eight years his senior. “I wanted to talk with her and her friends, but they did not take me to my company” – he said. His mother was a physician-epidemiologist, and his father, Boris Milner, taught economics and was one of the major specialists in the USSR by American management, constantly ezdivshim to travel abroad. Moreover, the intellectual father did not approve of it especially that of his son in the late 80’s gave an academic career and went into business by starting to trade computers. So it is no wonder that he spodvig Jury to return to school and get an MBA from the renowned Wharton Business School (where Milner Jr. Became the first student-neemigrantom of the former USSR). At the end of next billionaire Wharton spent several years in the department of the World Bank in Washington, but as he says, for him it was for his “lost years”: in Russia at that time just was privatization.

In Russia, Milner returned in 1995, when Mikhail Khodorkovsky called him in the investment brokerage company “Alliance-Menatep.” Around this time he met his future partner for many years – the director of the Moscow office of the hedge fund New Century Holdings Gregory Finger, who persuaded him to go into business venture. But when I ask Milner on what other people besides the Finger and Khodorkovsky have influenced his views, and he suddenly calls… Andrei Sakharov. In addition to the general’s alma mater (and Milner, and Sakharov finished Faculty of Physics), once they have met in America and found a common language: the words of co-owner of DST, sugars have always tried to look ahead and predict what will happen to science in 5-10 years and he tries to do the same with regard to how the Internet will evolve.

Forecasts, projections, and caution can not hurt. If today’s boldly Milner billionaire invests in internet business, then once, when he first began investing in Internet projects, part of his capital he has left in the shares of more reliable “non-technological” companies – Gazprom, “Norilsk Nickel” and the Alpha- Bank.

Another thing that has stayed with Milner on his last physical scientist – this is his love for numbers and formulas. He even says that we live in “the age of mathematicians”, and the power and wealth will belong to those who can create an algorithm for distributing information, dictating what and who may or may not know. Formula he uses in the work. When I ask if he was afraid that Facebook and other social media technology will be the next “bubble,” Milner says that he has his own mathematical calculations to estimate the business. “Formula Milner” takes into account all transactions with Internet assets worth more than $ 100 million in three months. If more than half of transactions the company has a P / E greater than the growth rate of its profits, it said on the bubble.