Dinner with Michael Bloomberg

Dinner with Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg has quite a puritan streak.
Jenny Ruth
I was Bloomberg's first employee on the ground in New Zealand.It was 1994 and it nearly didn't happen. I had said I was willing to accept the job on the terms and conditions offered but, in the final stages, the company abruptly cut the salary by about 10%, so I said get stuffed.Trevor Jarrett, then Bloomberg's general manager in Sydney and a bit of a London bovver boy who liked to get things done, stepped in; oh, no, the new proposed salary was in Australian dollars (the original offer had been in NZ dollars), Jarrett said. That ha...

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