Yuri Milner
| Yuri Milner | |
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Yuri Milner in 2011
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| Born |
11 November 1961 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Residence | Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater |
Moscow State University Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (MBA) |
| Occupation | Businessman: venture capitalist, founder of Digital Sky Technologies (DST Global) |
| Net worth |
 US$ 3.1 billion (2015) |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Milner, née Bochkova (m. 2004) |
| Children | 3 daughters |
Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner (Russian: Ю́рий Бори́сович (Бенцио́нович) Ми́льнер; born 11 November 1961) is a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. He founded investment firms Digital Sky Technologies (DST), now called Mail.ru Group and DST Global. Through DST Global, Milner is an investor in Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Flipkart, Spotify, Zocdoc, Groupon, JD.com, Planet Labs, Xiaomi, OlaCabs, Alibaba, Habito, Wish and many others. Milner's personal investments also include a stake in 23andMe and Beepi.
Milner was listed in the “Titans” category of Time magazine's 2016 Time 100.Foreign Policy magazine included Milner to its "Power List" – an inaugural list of 500 most powerful people on the planet released in May, 2013. Milner was included in Bloomberg Markets' 2012 50 Most Influential list. In 2010 Fortune's list of the world's fifty most prominent businessmen placed Milner at 46th place and he was recognized by Russian business magazine Vedomosti as "Businessman of the Year".
Born into a Jewish family on 11 November 1961 in Moscow, Yuri Milner was the second child of Russian intellectuals. His father, Bentsion Zakharovitch Milner (), was active in the sphere of management and organization. He was Chief Deputy Director at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Betty Iosifovna Milner, Yuri's mother, worked at the capital's state-run virological laboratory for disease control. His older sister, eight years his senior, is an architect.
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