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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

Michael Bloomberg started his company in 1981. He was already 39 years old. He faced large incumbents with tens of thousands of installed terminals and by global news agencies. Let's take a look at how he cracked the code to become the dominant player in financial information https://t.co/y0MeYR82s6

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.

Bloomberg fits the Christensen incumbent model not just because it exceeds the needs of some customers but also because it ignores the needs of others.

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