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)
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.
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.
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.
Chapter 1 | The Last Supper: The Thrill of Getting Fired: Tarrytown 1981 | 1 |
Chapter 2 | Capitalism, Here I Come: School, Work, and Hard Knocks | 9 |
Chapter 3 | I Love Mondays: Entrepreneurship: Vocation and Avocation | 39 |
Chapter 4 | We Can Do That: Elementary Journalism, Not Rocket Science | 67 |
Chapter 5 | "No" Is No Answer: Establishment Ignorance and Arrogance | 91 |
Chapter 6 | Money Talks: Textbook Multimedia | 111 |
Chapter 7 | Computers for Virgins: Technology: Politics and Promises | 131 |
Chapter 8 | Management 101: The Bloomberg Way | 159 |
Chapter 9 | Coming Up Next: America's Wonderful Country | 185 |
Chapter 10 | Out of the Office: Character and Consistency | 203 |
Chapter 11 | Wealth, Wisdom, and Work: Philanthropy and Public Service | 227 |
Afterword | 251 | |
Index | 253 |