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For UK readers and or football fans, the Alisher Usmanov mentioned, who now controls VKontakte, is the same Alisher Usmanov who owns a large stake in Arsenal F
by aspidistra 13y ago
For UK readers and or football fans, the Alisher Usmanov mentioned, who now controls VKontakte, is the same Alisher Usmanov who owns a large stake in Arsenal FC.
He also owns a stake in Odnoklassniki, another Russian social media site, which is "for classmates and old friends", a bit like Friends Reunited:
http://odnoklassniki.ru/ http://odnoklassniki.ru/
- dopamean 13y agoAs a long time Arsenal fan, fuck Usmanov.
- vellum 13y agoThe remaining 40 percent of VK belonged to the Mail.ru group, co-owned by … Alisher Usmanov. Usmanov owns shares in a lot of Silicon Valley companies.[1] Mail.ru's former chairman, Yuri Milner, funded the automatic Y Combinator investments from 2011-2013.[2] 1: http://www.usm-group.com/internet.html http://www.usm-group.com/internet.html Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Groupon, Zynga, Spotify, Zalando, ZocDoc, Airbnb, Alibaba and 360buy. 2: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/16/us-venture-milner-ycombinator-idUSBRE9BF1GA20131216 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/16/us-venture-milner-...