Michael Bloomberg: Fired With $10M—He Built the Terminal That Runs Wall Street

Описание: One day in 1981, a Wall Street partner walked out with a cardboard box—and a $10 million check. A few years later, the machine he built was sitting on trading desks everywhere, quietly becoming the screen global finance depends on.

In this episode of Modern Biographies, we follow Michael Bloomberg’s path step by step: from a working-class upbringing and an engineer’s mindset to Salomon Brothers, the moment he got pushed out, and the gamble that turned a single product into an information empire. Then we track what happened when private power collided with public power—Bloomberg as New York City mayor, the data-driven wins, and the controversies that still define his legacy.

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Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:56 The Making of Control
07:58 Loss, Then Leverage
11:49 The Screen That Won
15:44 A CEO Becomes Mayor
19:06 Governing by Dashboard
23:30 The Policy That Backfired
27:30 Buying Global Influence
29:12 Power After Politics
31:34 Afterword