According to foreign media reports, the U.S. federal Media (Federated Media) founder John Batle (John Battelle) to the Russian Internet company Digital Sky Technologies CEO Milner (Yuri) Conducted an interview.
The following are the main points of the interview:
Mr Milner says the company has essentially two businesses: one for Russian operations. The second is DST's global investment business. Mr Milner runs the investment business and is the president of the Russian operations business. The company has Russia's largest social network.
· DST has invested in the United States with Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.
· DST invests according to the management structure of different companies, the company's main secondary investment (secondary investment), not the main investment (primary investment), and sometimes the company purchases from employees in other companies.
• They will not enter the board of directors of other companies and will not participate in the operation.
· DST invests in global social networks, and the company's investment model is in the spotlight. Once in the boardroom of other companies, it could lead to conflict with previous or next investment.
· Facebook did not lead to a potential conflict between the company's social networking operations and the Facebook shares it holds.
Mr Milner argues that DST gained experience by investing in other companies.
· DST is typically invested in the Internet sector, valued at hundreds of millions of of dollars in mature companies. Mr Milner says the world's similar companies may have 25~30 homes. All these companies are very famous.
Mr Milner points out that Twitter is also a company like this, but he did not comment.
Mr Milner said he had seen the movie "Social Networking" (the Social receptacle) and liked it.
Mr Milner argues that Facebook has fundamentally changed the way information is exchanged and processed, which will be the basis for future development to AI.
"Social games will dominate the gaming market, and all games may be socially socialized over time," Mr Milner said. For a possible clash between Facebook and Zynga, Mr Milner said that would be a wonderful interaction between the platform and the main players in the platform.