Jeff Bezos, Riding High, Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post
NYT
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Jeff Bezos built Amazon
into an e-commerce and computing powerhouse. Now his ambitions are more
sprawling as he takes on ever larger civic and business challenges.
Those
diverse interests were on display on Tuesday when Mr. Bezos, Amazon’s
chief executive, spoke onstage at the Code technology conference here,
where he commented on an array of topics, including workplace culture,
privacy and his decision to buy The Washington Post in 2013.
Mr.
Bezos said he bought the newspaper because he wanted to make it into a
more powerful national — and even global — publication, and that The
Post was well situated to be a watchdog over the leaders of the world’s
most powerful country. “If it had been a financially upside-down salty
snack food company, I would not have bought it,” he said.
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