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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

HIGHLIGHTS: Michael Bloomberg

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Norges Bank Investment Management

Norges Bank, Nicolai Tangen, Business, In Good Company

4.7 • 236 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We've curated a special 10-minute version of the podcast for those in a hurry.  

 

Here you can listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/michael-bloomberg-building-an-empire-leading-new/id1614211565?i=1000744113852&l=nb

Step inside Bloomberg’s New York headquarters for a conversation with the man who built it all. Nicolai Tangen sits down with Michael Bloomberg to explore his journey from Wall Street to founding Bloomberg LP, his approach to leadership and risk-taking, and the values that fuel his extraordinary philanthropic work. Bloomberg shares stories of creating the Bloomberg Terminal, transforming New York City as mayor, and why he still works almost every day at 83. An insightful look at a life devoted to building, improving, and giving back.

In Good Company is hosted by Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management. New full episodes every Wednesday, and don't miss our Highlight episodes every Friday. 

 

The production team for this episode includes Isabelle Karlsson and PLAN-B's Niklas Figenschau Johansen, Sebastian Langvik-Hansen and Pål Huuse. Background research was conducted by Isabelle Karlsson.

 


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0:00.0

Hi everybody, tune in to this short version of the podcast, which we do every Friday for the long version. Tune in on Wednesdays.

0:08.0

Hi everyone, I'm Nicola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Soven Wealth Fund, and today I'm in New York, am I in the Bloomberg offices.

0:17.0

Now, normally when I'm in the Bloomberg offices, I see a journalist or an anchor, but today I'm seeing the man himself. Michael Bloomberg.

0:24.6

I'm very careful to not be a journalist. The one thing you can't do is get involved in the

0:30.6

journalism, if you're going to have good journalism. So there's one guy, John McClithwape, who runs it.

0:36.6

Mike, you just have one of the most extraordinary journeys in American business, starting

0:42.9

Bloomberg being mayor for 12 years, being one of the most important philanthropists.

0:48.2

And so perhaps we can just go all the way back the day that you...

0:52.1

I was born at an early age.

0:54.0

Yeah, you was absolutely.

0:56.0

No, let's start with Salman Brothers, because you were, you know, strange enough, you were

1:00.8

at some stage laid off and then the next day you started Bloomberg.

1:04.7

So what do you think then?

1:06.8

I was, grew up in Massachusetts.

1:11.6

Father was a bookkeeper, made $6,000 the best year of his life.

1:16.9

I was a Boy Scout.

1:19.0

I was a C student.

1:21.6

I always made the top off of the class possible, is my guideline.

1:25.6

And when I was getting out of school, I went from college to business

1:31.6

school in Harvard. It was lucky enough to get in. But when I was ready to graduate, I thought

1:39.0

I was going to go to Vietnam. Partially, we were involved in that war. This was in 1966. A very nasty war in a very nasty

1:47.2

ways Americans treated the troops who we drafted and sent over to risk their lives. Some of

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