IMPACTROOM for managers, marketeers and mothers*: "Tweets on Yuri Milner"

Monday, August 08, 2011

"Tweets on Yuri Milner"

Yesterday the Russian investor Yuri Milner and his venture group Digital Sky Technologies have been throwing a ton of money behind Twitter. Bloomberg reports that Milner’s investment will make up about half the funding round of $800 million Twitter is aiming at, valuing the company at $8 billion.

Digital Sky Technologies (DST) has been backing Facebook since May 2009, when it paid $200 million for a 1.96% stake (according to a source close to the company this is now close to 10% ). Digital Sky Technologies has also invested about $150 million in Groupon, a similar amount in Zynga, Spotify and Airbnb.

In a quote, DST’s Yuri Milner said: “Twitter is one of the few companies that has truly changed the world. Twitter’s astonishing growth is a testament to how important it is becoming to more people every day, and why we couldn’t pass up the chance to be a bigger part of its future.”

by Marc Van Steyvoort, Guest Author, http://www.mediaconversations.be/

About Impactroom

Impactroom is a personal research blog on life, leadership and management issues by Gert Van Mol.

Gert Van Mol founded The Wall Street Journal Europe Future Leadership Institute (later to become 'The Future Leadership Institute') as well as The International Student Senate. He is also Non-Executive Director EU Policy at OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). Between 2011 and 2013 he was CEO of the TV station Life!tv. In 2013 he became CEO of Skyview, an Amsterdam company installing permanent Giant Ferris Wheels in top tier European cities. In 2015 he was asked to execute the Chapter 11 (WCO) conditions of www.foto.com for the Belgian court of Nivelles.

About the Impactroom idea

Impactroom evolves around questions such as: What is the difference between a manager and a leader ? Should we read expensive managementguru books or just pass them around as gifts ? Are excellent male managers better fathers ? Why are managers spending more time with their colleagues than with their own family ?

About the 'Mothers*' in the title of this blog? Mothers are managers by nature, although they don't see it that way most of the time. Important lessons are to be learned from women with children. They are the future topmanagers.

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