Bloomberg by Bloomberg
Fired from Salomon at 39, Bloomberg tells how he bet the payout on a single machine and built a media empire from it
Bloomberg wrote this memoir in the 1990s, well before the mayoralty, and it is candid about being fired from Salomon Brothers at thirty-nine and betting his severance on a single idea: a computer terminal that would give traders better data than anyone else. He traces how that machine became an indispensable tool and the foundation of a media company, in the blunt, opinionated voice that also runs his firm.
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