Last night, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought a newspaper — specifically, The Washington Post — for $250 million. This came as shocking news to the media world, as it put Bezos in ownership of one of the largest metropolitan newspapers in the world.
However, Bezos is not the first person to invest his millions (or billions) into weird side projects that are, at least at face value, almost perpendicular to their main business. In fact, purchasing The Washington Post has more obvious implications, as compared to some of Bezos' other investments.