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Authors: Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Matthew Winkler
ISBN-13: 9780471208884, ISBN-10: 0471208884
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: August 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Michael Bloomberg

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG is CEO and Founder of Bloomberg L.P., a global media company that encompasses the Bloomberg Professional service, a leading provider of online financial information; Bloomberg News, a wire service providing news stories to leading newspapers worldwide; Bloomberg Radio, a 24-hour news radio station which is distributed internationally; Bloomberg Television, a global financial television network; www.bloomberg.com and Bloomberg Publishing, which includes Bloomberg Press and the magazines, Bloomberg Personal Finance and Bloomberg Markets.

MATTHEW WINKLER, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is founder and Editor in Chief of Bloomberg News.

Book Synopsis

A provocative autobiography by the visionary leader of the world's fastest-growing media empire

"A classic tale of a nimble, customer-focused, entrepreneurial David outsmarting bureaucratic, ossified, corporate Goliaths."

Business Week

"Michael Bloomberg is the most creative media entrepreneur of our time and, with Bill Gates, perhaps the most successful."

Rupert Murdoch, Chairman & Chief Executive, News Corporation

"Entertaining, engaging, and informative, Bloomberg by Bloomberg is packed with great advice about how to start a lean, hungry company-and how to keep it that way."

Bryan Burrough, coauthor, Barbarians at the Gate

"The man with Wall Street's best known generic name has written an autobiography that keeps you up late to finish. The book is full of wonderful insights about Wall Street and about starting and growing a new business."

Julian H. Robertson Jr., Chairman, Tiger Management LLC

"This is the best insight yet on how one man shook up the entire financial information industry."

Richard Branson, Chairman, Virgin Group of Companies

All author's royalties from Bloomberg by Bloomberg are donated to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Bryan Burrough

Entertaining, engaging, and informative, Bloomberg by Bloomberg is packed with great advice about how to start a lean, hungry company-and how to keep it that way.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1The Last Supper: The Thrill of Getting Fired: Tarrytown 19811
Chapter 2Capitalism, Here I Come: School, Work, and Hard Knocks9
Chapter 3I Love Mondays: Entrepreneurship: Vocation and Avocation39
Chapter 4We Can Do That: Elementary Journalism, Not Rocket Science67
Chapter 5"No" Is No Answer: Establishment Ignorance and Arrogance91
Chapter 6Money Talks: Textbook Multimedia111
Chapter 7Computers for Virgins: Technology: Politics and Promises131
Chapter 8Management 101: The Bloomberg Way159
Chapter 9Coming Up Next: America's Wonderful Country185
Chapter 10Out of the Office: Character and Consistency203
Chapter 11Wealth, Wisdom, and Work: Philanthropy and Public Service227
Afterword251
Index253

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