History of Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

Businessman and politician. Michael Rubens Bloomberg was born on February 14, 1942, Valentine, in a working class neighborhood of Boston, within a middle class family. His father was an accountant and mother a housewife, but the young Mike he showed from his infancy he was able to outflank any obstacle out of mediocrity.


Thanks to a grant graduated from the prestigious Johns Hopkins, although he obtained his doctorate at Harvard, with Yale, is the American university where most presidents have left the country.


In the summer of 1966 the well-known firm Salomon Brothers took their services. Was when I knew what it really meant to work on Wall Street. Soon he became the supervisor of all stock movements, sales and information systems company. His value was such that he became a partner the firm six years later. At 39 he was fired, and took $ 10 million for their actions. With that money, decided to open an office next to some former co-Salomon, being his biggest success to recognize the early eighties, the value of computer technology to organize the contributions and financial analysis.


He began to develop a program with which to gather information on securities (stocks, bonds, etc.). So that users could consult all the time, and so began to provide information about the financial world to its customers (and has some 165 000 subscribers to check their information throughout the day).


This business began to grow gradually and today is the multimedia news largest economy and finance in the world, with over one hundred offices around the globe and eight thousand employees across them.


Later decided to move into new markets, such as radio and television. WNEW in 1992 bought an AM station in New York, then moved to television. Ventured with a morning daily, thirty minutes, which was broadcast on Maryland Public Television and distributed throughout the country.