No. The issue is that to most of the social class that makes up the Valley, every high net worth individuals from a CIS state is "Russian Mafia". If that's xenophobia, fair enough, but it's a specific brand of xenophobia, and as the amounts of money we're talking about go up --- perhaps past Yuri Milner --- it's a brand of xenophobia that may get less and less irrational.
They don't call it "Russian money" or "Milner money" or "Soviet money" or any other epithet. They call it "Russian mafia money".
They don't call it "Russian money" or "Milner money" or "Soviet money" or any other epithet. They call it "Russian mafia money".