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Michael Bloomberg CEO, Bloomberg$96.3BReal Time Net Worth as of 9/27/23#10 in the world today
About Michael Bloomberg
- Michael Bloomberg cofounded the financial information and media company Bloomberg LP in 1981.
- He put in the seed funding for the company and now owns 88% of the business, which has estimated revenues north of $12 billion.
- Bloomberg got his start on Wall Street in 1966 with an entry-level job at investment bank Salomon Brothers. He was fired 15 years later.
- A major philanthropist, he has donated more than $12.7 billion to gun control, climate change, and other causes.
- He announced a run for president in November 2019 but dropped out in March 2020 and pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into defeating Donald Trump in 2020.
- The mayor of New York City for 12 years, Bloomberg is one of just four individuals to have served that long.
