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Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
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Facebook
Platform
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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Opportunity
Exploring
Focused
New Opportunity
New Opportunities
Opportunities
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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Know How
Successful
Would Be
Facebook
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You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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Information
Thousand
Transmit
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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Google
Keys
Successful
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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Corners
Trying
Various
World
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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Accumulation
Different
Accumulate
Facebook
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.
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Networks
Invested
Social Networks
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There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
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Technology
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Demand
Technologies
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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Facebook
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There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind
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Eras
Mind
People
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You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.
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Edges
Knows
Today
Edge
Globally
Maintain
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
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Physics
Theoretical
Background
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It’s not how much something’s worth today, it’s what it’s worth in five or 10 years.
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Five
Today
Years
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It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
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How Much
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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Four
Poland
Russia
Social Network
Networks
Invested
Social Networks
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Interest
Investors
Servant
Trying
Align
Interests
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Facebook
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Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
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Driven
Player
Russia
Significant
Social Network
Networks
Domestic
Presence
Social Networks
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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Important
Knows
People
Facebook
Future People Important
Mostly
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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Digital
Digital World
Implications
Social
Way
World
Change World Better
Better Way
Change Better World
Total
Interact
Search
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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Enthusiastic
Internet
Investors
Momentum
Range
Significant
Social
Wide
Wide Range
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It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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Bottom
Bottom Line
Digital
Margins
Scale
Fundamental
Revenues
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It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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Digital
Fundamentals
Lines
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I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?
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Impact
Two
Years
Future Must Will
Analyze
Statement
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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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Connected
Information
Screens
Thousand
Transmit
Important People Information
Billion
Voice People Important
Thousand Times
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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Answers
Different
World
Accumulate
Languages
Facebook
Translated
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The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.
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Life
Intelligent
World
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We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.
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Arena
Investment
Significant
Monitor
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I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
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Entrepreneur
Investors
Years
Zuckerberg
Billion
Cap
Divide
Facebook
Ratio
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I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.
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Growth
Speed
Thinking
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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Competition
Important
Long
Term
Networks
Creates
Facebook
Graph
Local
Social Networks
Sustain
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Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.
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Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Information
Way
Basis
Develop
Facebook
Forefront
Fundamentally
Processed
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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China
Fund
Innovation
Produce
Scale
Facebook
Investor
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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
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Average
Capable
Employee
Internet
Revenue
Size
Traditional
Businesses
Companies
Compares
Generating
Per
Million
Normally
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The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen.
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Decision
Internet Users
Social Media
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One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.
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Joining
Explained
Facebook
Invested
New People
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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Black
Black Hole
Human Beings
People
Thinking
World People Black
Applications
Assume
World Black People
Hole
Practical
Quest
Remote
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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Travel
Accounts
Exposure
Multiple
Other Countries
Russia
Skills
States
United States
Among
Countries
Networks
Edge
Exactly
Local
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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Art
Daily Life
Fundamentals
Human Beings
Physics
Use
Life Art Daily
Daily
Fundamental
More Or Less
Remote
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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Different
Hurt
Motivated
Recognition
Thinking
Additional
Scale
Quest
Scientists
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Billions
Brain
Civilization
Concentration
Creating
Embrace
Huge
Human Brain
Human Civilization
Population
Social
Develop
High
Facebook
Helped
Hundreds
Million
Network
Next Step
Propel
Step
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Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.
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Accurate
Giving
Handful
Perspective
Predictions
Species
Thinking
Defines
How Far
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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Time Long Grow
Facebook
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The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.
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Assuming
Important
Journal
Newspapers
Population
Reaching
Usa
Wall
Wall Street Journal
Basis
Daily
Daily Basis
Extremely
Largest
Newspaper
Street Journal
Usa Today
Wall Street
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The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.
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Complicated
Mathematics
People
Physics
Understanding
Years
Advanced
Me People Understanding
Disconnect
Fundamental
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