9/20/2023 0 Comments Terminal muse dash![]() ![]() There was no struggle-Doctoroff referred to him as “God”-but there had been strain. His intentions were often inscrutable.Įither way, Mike Bloomberg had already accepted the resignation of Dan Doctoroff, the CEO he installed in 2008 to watch over the company while he kept watch over the city. He had to return to his company and rejigger it somehow, control it from within, cause ripples without. He was never going to just sit around and read the Economist and give money away. It wasn’t enough to be mayor twice-he changed the law to get a third term. He was a data guy, cold and logical, who cracked down on smoking cigarettes in New York because they were bad, then banned trans fat in restaurants, also bad, then tried to ban soda as liquid evil. He was, in the view of one former Bloomberg executive, “schizoid,” at once the corporate chieftain obsessed with keeping his lucrative data terminal business humming for Wall Street traders and the politician with an insatiable lust for influence through his broader media platforms, including television and magazines. And everyone-including perhaps The Mayor himself-had underestimated The Owner’s desire for control. They thought Bloomberg would cloister himself there with coffee and the Economist. They expected him to decamp for philanthropy or relax with his grandkid, maybe write an occasional column about gun control for Bloomberg View, the editorial vehicle designed to promote The Mayor’s causes and filled with pedigreed smart types housed in a beautiful Stanford White-designed townhouse on the Upper East Side. He had to choose his words carefully.īloomberg employees never imagined this level of involvement from the now 73-year-old oligarch. Now this would be his first all-staff message since then. In September, he had announced that he would be resuming CEO duties. He attended editorial meetings and involved himself in business strategy. He’d started showing up, days after leaving politics, at a desk on the fifth floor of the company’s glassy Lexington Avenue headquarters. Now he was back where he began, at Bloomberg L.P., his $9 billion financial data and media company. Three terms running the greatest city on Earth. He’d been gone 12 years, balancing budgets at City Hall and reshaping New York on a grand scale. ![]() ![]() On November 5, 2014, Mike Bloomberg settled in front of a Bloomberg terminal, logged on with his “B-unit” biometric identity card and prepared to send an email to his employees. Luke O’Brien is senior correspondent for Politico Magazine. ![]()
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