#8 Michael Bloomberg
CEO, Bloomberg
REAL TIME NET WORTH
$60.5B
as of 1/29/20
- Michael Bloomberg cofounded financial information and media company Bloomberg LP in 1981.
- He put in the seed funding for the company and now owns 88% of the business, which has estimated revenues of $10 billion.
- After earning his M.B.A. from Harvard, Bloomberg got a job in 1966 in “The Cage” at Salomon Brothers, where he counted out securities by hand.
- He worked his way up to general partner but was fired in 1981 after 15 years at Salomon.
- An active philanthropist, he has donated $8 billion to gun control, climate change and other causes.
- The mayor of New York City for 12 years, Bloomberg is one of just four individuals to have served that long….
Michael Bloomberg
At Wiki….
The other 3-term 12-year Mayors of New York were Fiorello La Guardia (GOP-Ind., 1934-45), Robert Wagner, Jr (D, 1954-65) and Ed Koch (D, later D&R, 1978-89).
Since Mike Bloomberg (Mayor 2002-13) was a former Democrat turned GOP to run for Mayor and then re-elected as an Independent, that means that the only one of the four who could be considered to be a straight-line partisan would be Robert Wagner, Jr.