The Guardian: The billionaire who bought the LA Times: ‘Hipsters will want paper soon’

by Rory Carroll

Patrick Soon-Shiong has spent decades trying to cure cancer and made a biotech fortune in the process, making him one of California’s most successful, enigmatic billionaires.

Born in South Africa to Chinese parents, he rose from humble origins and ended up in Los Angeles where he has thrived as a surgeon, scientist and entrepreneur. “The richest doctor in the history of the world,” Forbes magazine declared in 2014 .

A bright, restless mind, Soon-Shiong is now seeking to remedy a very different source of malignant metastasis: news.

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