Yuri Milner: New-Style Oligarch?

Digital Sky Technologies CEO Yuri Milner is a big investor in the hottest Internet companies of the day, but the Russian businessman isn’t keen on the idea he’s an “oligarch.”

Instead, Milner prefers to think of himself in the services business, bringing his knowledge of East and West to his investments in Facebook,  Zynga and Groupon.

“I’m a servant,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with AdweekMedia editorial director Michael Wolff at the Monaco Media Forum today.

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