A Russian Star Rises in Silicon Valley

Every time I hear of these things I get flashbacks to sophisticated Japanese investors flush with cash snapping up American property at bubblicious Tokyo prices back in the 1980s.

It seems like they invest in companies that have already proven themselves in their own markets.

From a traditional business sense, its interesting seeing a Russian company invest in Valley companies at this magnitude.

I'm interested to see what their impact is outside of being able to provide large amounts of capital at favourable rates.

the BW journalist forgot to tell us where the money he invests come from. He's probably a very good entrepreneur, but I doubt he was able to make billions of dollars of profit from ad sales on Mail.ru or Vkontakte.ru

The whole thing reads like a recycled press release, light on meaningful details heavy on fluff, kinda like a marshmallow!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov

Funny how that document mentions De Beers for suing him for 'unjust enrichment'. If there ever was a pot that called a kettle black that would have been it.