The company invested in his investment contains two billion US dollars of Internet giants (Alibaba and FACEBOOK), USD billion US dollars ( , TWITTER, Xiaomi . Didi taxi, Airbnb and Snapchat) companies And the shareholding ratio is a lot. In just a few years, he has traveled to the world's Internet star companies and earned tens of billions of dollars.
He is Yuri Milner, the founder and helm of Global Investment Fund DST Global.
On November 11, 1961, Milner was born in an intellectual family in Moscow. His father was an economist and his mother was a doctor.
he ideal when he was a kid was to become a scientist. He studied at National University of Russia and focused on theoretical physics . After graduating, he became a physics researcher at the Soviet National Academy of Sciences, but he did not insist on giving up after a few years. Later, he recalled that he was "not smart enough." In 1990,
went to Wharton School of Business in the United States with a scholarship. After completing his studies, Milner entered the World Bank Financial Department to work back to China. In 2005, Milner founded DST to invest in Internet companies. The legend began!
is based on Milner's own statement. His investment principle is: the first is the good product, it is best to make the population passed on; the second is that there must be very good founders.
has so far, Milner's biggest victory is still betting at Mark Zuckerberg , 25 years old in 2009. At that time, he invested $ 200 million in Facebook and finally received a return of $ 4 billion.
In 2008, the financial crisis swept the world, and many startups were in financing difficulties, including Facebook. Hearing Milner, he decided to seize the opportunity, so he immediately found various local tyrants in Russia and posted that they had paid money to raise a fund to invest in Facebook. After
found the money, Milner immediately called Facebook's CFO Gidian. But at the time in Silicon Valley, La Russia's investment was not a glorious thing. Although the company was lacking money, Gidian still rejected Milner.
was unwilling to put down the phone and bought a ticket to the United States directly. Gidie had to meet with Yuri . At the meeting, Yuri not only issued excellent investment conditions, but Gidie also found that many of Yuri's ideas were consistent with Zuckerberg . Although she was alive, Milner's profound insights on social network technology, even the helm of the social empire, couldn't help praising. Of course,
, as a top investor, Yuri, after winning the Silicon Valley in the United States, slowly put his vision in a vibrant emerging market -the Chinese market. In the investment portfolio of
Milner, not only Facebook , a dazzling star, as well as investment objects such as Twitter and Alibaba Group and Xiaomi, are all famous Internet technology companies.
Millner also has another unique thing. After his funds enter the company, he does not require the board seat, preferred shares , special voting right, and any power that can affect the company's major decisions. He accurately predicts the development prospects of Ali, JD.com, and Didi. China's richest man once commented on Milner: "Fast movement, high opening price, and accurate vision, fancy one to catch one." Milner is such an extraordinary vision and execution that makes him a global super investor.
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