Via Rory Jones and Stephen Kalin in wsj.com: After pumping tens of billions of dollars into high-profile global investments, the $700 billion Public Investment Fund is accelerating spending at home, often on obscure startups and projects that it plans to own and operate. Last month, PIF said it would start selling milk from camels and dates grown in the region around the holy city of Medina. Before that, it launched a halal meats exporter and a company aiming to make Saudi coffee globally popular.
