Here’s a story: A sharp young man graduates from college, works in the financial services industry, quits to build his own company, then buys the Washington Post.
Jeff Bezos? No,Eugene Meyer.
The Amazon.com CEO may seem to some like an unlikely owner of the Washington Post given his lack of journalistic chops. But for all the hand wringing about this momentous and uncertain changing of the guard, his path isn’t all that different from that of the person who bought the Post 80 years ago.
To read the original article: Jeff Bezos Looks A Lot Like The Washington Post's Last Buyer - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ
