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Awards & Recognition
★Forbes 100 Greatest Living Business Minds (2017)
★Fortune World's 50 Greatest Leaders (2017)
★Time 100 Titans category (2016)
★Forbes Midas List #15 best venture capitalists (2017)
★Forbes Midas List #52 (2018)
★Bloomberg Markets 50 Most Influential (2012)
★Foreign Policy Power List 500 most powerful (2013)
★Russian GQ Man of the Year (2011)
★Vanity Fair New Establishment List #23 (2011)
★Fortune Businessperson of the Year Top 50 #19 (2011)
★Vedomosti Businessman of the Year (2010)
Notable Facts
→Founder of DST Global, one of the world's leading technology investment firms
→Early investor in Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Airbnb, WhatsApp, Alibaba worth billions
→Co-founder of Breakthrough Prize ($3M awards for scientists, called 'Oscars of Science')
→Giving Pledge signatory committing majority of wealth to philanthropy
→Breakthrough Listen $100M search for extraterrestrial intelligence
→Israeli citizen who renounced Russian citizenship in 2022
→Lives in Silicon Valley/Los Angeles area, owns $100M mansion
→Net worth estimated at $6-7 billion
→Has physics degree from Moscow State University and Wharton MBA
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