Michael Bloomberg: Building an Empire, Leading New York and Giving Away Billions

Hi everyone, I'm uh Nikolai Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Soul and Wealth Fund, and today I'm in New York and I'm in the Bloomberg offices. Now, normally when I'm in the Bloomberg offices I see a journalist or an anchor, but today I'm seeing the man himself, Michael Bloomberg. I'm very careful to not be a journalist. Um, the one thing you can't do is get involved in the journalism if you're gonna have good journalism. So there's one guy, John McLathwape, who runs it.

Mike, uh, you just have one of the most extraordinary journeys in in American business, starting uh Bloomberg, being mayor for 12 years. being one of the most important philanthropists. And so perhaps we can just go all the way back the day that you I was born at an early age. Yeah. You absolutely.

Uh no, let's start with uh Salmon Brothers, because you were, you know, strangely enough, you were at some stage laid off and then the next day you started Bloomberg. So what do you th what do you think then? Um, I was uh grew up in Massachusetts. Father was a bookkeeper, made $6,000 the best year of his life.

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