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On one hand - Yay! 150k for struggling startups - Horay! On the other hand he is a close business associate of Alisher Usmanov, who's commonly considered to b
by eps 14y ago
On one hand - Yay!
150k for struggling startups - Horay!
On the other hand he is a close business associate of Alisher Usmanov, who's commonly considered to be, basically, the mafia boss of modern Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov
- jboggan 14y agoAnd the Borgias helped the Renaissance flourish.
- iRobot 14y agoLess money going into guns then... win-win?
- meric 14y agoUsmanov owns 32% of Digital Sky Technologies which in turn has investments in Zynga, Groupon, Facebook, Airbnb and has strong ties to Goldman Sachs. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Sky_Technologies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Sky_Technologies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov) If your allegations are true... I'm sorry, I can't finish this sentence.
- Tichy 14y agoJust because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you...
- gojomo 14y agoThere is not support in the referenced Wikipedia article (or its talk page) for the strong allegation which directly precedes it.
- eps 14y agoYou don't say.
- r3m6 14y agoThe similarity is striking: Nobel donated his prizes to combat his bad conscious about the horrible "side effects" of his invention, the dynamite. I would not be surprised if Millner has a similar motivation. If so, he should be open about it up front (like Nobel was).