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A Russian Star Rises in Silicon Valley
- dmix 17y agoIt seems like they invest in companies that have already proven themselves in their own markets. From a traditional business sense, its interesting seeing a Russian company invest in Valley companies at this magnitude. I'm interested to see what their impact is outside of being able to provide large amounts of capital at favourable rates.
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- patio11 17y agoEvery time I hear of these things I get flashbacks to sophisticated Japanese investors flush with cash snapping up American property at bubblicious Tokyo prices back in the 1980s.
- dotcoma 17y agothe BW journalist forgot to tell us where the money he invests come from. He's probably a very good entrepreneur, but I doubt he was able to make billions of dollars of profit from ad sales on Mail.ru or Vkontakte.ru
- hartror 17y agoThe whole thing reads like a recycled press release, light on meaningful details heavy on fluff, kinda like a marshmallow!
- griftah 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov
- jacquesm 17y agoFunny how that document mentions De Beers for suing him for 'unjust enrichment'. If there ever was a pot that called a kettle black that would have been it.