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Bloomberg offers a perk for clients that is known as the “lose-your-job free trial.”
It works like this: if you are a paying customer who gets fired, you can request access to a Bloomberg terminal at no cost for some number of months.
The program helps explain one reason Mike Bloomberg has... See more
In data and analytics, Bloomberg is being challenged by a raft of start-ups. Some of them target smaller investors like me who baulk at paying Bloomberg’s US$24,000 subscription fee. Others target bigger customers who want to go deeper into more specialised data than Bloomberg supports. I use two alternatives—Koyfin and Sentieo.
Marc Rubinstein • Disrupting Bloomberg
In it’s heyday, Goldman’s special situations group was the navy SEALs of money making. Today’s guest, Alan Waxman, used to run that group before leaving to build Sixth Street, now a $115b behemoth.
SSG heads were sometimes of the more brainy, nerdy variety. Not Waxman. He is a force of nature and energy who apparently... See more
Patrick OShaughnessyx.comBloomberg fits the Christensen incumbent model not just because it exceeds the needs of some customers but also because it ignores the needs of others.
Marc Rubinstein • Disrupting Bloomberg
Fourteen years ago, David Tepper went on Squawk Box and shared how he made $7bn in a single year and laid out his worldview and a strategy that worked for the coming decade.
Last week, almost fourteen years to the day, David returned to Squawk Box to discuss China, stimulus, AI, and more. He starts by discussing whether... See more
But Bloomberg’s a tough device to dislodge. It retains prime real estate on its users’ desks and it’s a social network and it’s a luxury good. In combination, these features have lent it immunity to Christensen’s disruption theory. Slack may be an easier challenge.