Yuri Milner Quotes

I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

Digital is going to have five times the impact than the information era. Just because you led the first transition as a company or country, that doesn't mean you will lead in this one.

All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.

Even in mature economies, digital's benefits to society are substantial.

Trade ministers lag behind technology or the development of technology.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off.

The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.

We are now living in a completely digitalized world and a completely globalized world, so we have to find some new mechanisms and values to deal with this post-digitalized and post-globalized world.

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

Digital, it is not the destination.

I'm a little bit nervous for us with all of this electronically generated new hyper-space that we've moved into, where not only people but also economies and systems, like banking, are left to zeros and ones. I want to be more than a zero or one.

Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

If we look at India and the Indian demographics and the Indian consumer, I think the Indian consumer is going digital, social, and mobile. They want everything in a digital format, everything available on the go, and we socially connected.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

Beyond the traditional areas of cooperation, we have entered the digital age with its own opportunities. The area of fintech needs to be explored.