BLOOMBERG BY BLOOMBERG

BOOK BY ITS COVER

A colour photo of Michael Bloomberg staring down the reader against a stark white background (plus his scrawled signature)

AUTHOR’S CURRENT NET WORTH

US$59 billion

WE OPEN ON...

Bloomberg getting fired from his first job, at Salomon Brothers, with a US$10 million severance after a Last Supper meeting where

executives ate “greasy steaks”

FIRST PAYDAY

US$9,000 starting salary at Salomon Brothers, plus a US$2,500 loan

AMAZON RANKING

#582,909 in Kindle Store

REVIEWS

“Reading it feels like being trapped inside a PowerPoint presentation about why billionaires are interesting.” – Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

WEIRD FLEX

“I was one of the youngest

Eagle Scouts in that organisation’s history.”

IN THE YEAR THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED, HE...

Was CEO of his eponymous company, Bloomberg LP, a

post he left to run for mayor only a few years later