Yuri Milner: "stick with the founders as long as they’re pushing the envelope"

I like what he said about Wal-Mart of China being an on-line company. A lot of the emerging markets skipped fully building out landlines to go mobile. Could a country skip brick and mortar to go largely online?

I can think of a dozen reasons why he's wrong, but I'd have said the same about several of his investments, and he's the one who has been right so far.

I'm more interested in seeing what Mr. Milner will do with Zynga than any of his other investments, especially since ZNGA just closed higher than it's IPO for the first time the other day. As an outsider and a game enthusiast, I'd argue they haven't been pushing the envelope in quite some time (if at all)-- and yet he's still backing them. That to me is interesting, and has me wondering what they have in their pipeline.

Push the envelope: a. Get rich quick in Soviet Russia doing shady businesses b. "Reinvest" the money in the US c. Make even more profit.

Gaming both systems: Soviet and US and profit from both like a boss == priceless.

An excellent example of corporate-speak turning bog-standard advice into something worthy of revelation.

In Soviet Russia envelope eat you