Welcome to Axis ProRotter, where we take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

I'm Dan Pramack. On today's show, CEO turnover hits a record high and the centrality of Peter Thiel at Facebook.

But first, Mayor Mike's path to the nomination. So it's been about

three weeks now since Mike Bloomberg first declared his candidacy for president, and he has not

lacked for critics. Elizabeth Warren has accused him of trying to buy the presidency.

Election should not be for sale, not to billionaires. On Bloomberg TV, no less,

based on the $35 million he's already spent on ads alone.

Other progressives flinch at the very notion of a billionaire candidate, let alone a 77-year-old

from New York who's got a golfing history with Donald Trump, a business history with Wall Street,

and a record that includes stop and frisk policing, for which he has since apologized.

And many throughout the Democratic

establishment wish Bloomberg was just putting all of his ad money towards Senate races rather

than his own campaign. All of which leads us to the why. Why Bloomberg, a very, very smart

man by most accounts, is doing this. Remember, he flirted seriously with running in 2016, but decided he could

not win the Democratic nomination and felt a third party candidacy would have helped Trump by

pulling votes from Hillary Clinton. One argument in Bloomberg's favor, though, comes from

Bradley Tusk, a current venture capitalist who previously served as Bloomberg's campaign manager

in New York.

He argues in a fast company piece that Bloomberg first became mayor by running a very unconventional

campaign and that he could do the same here, particularly by focusing all of his efforts

on getting delegates during Super Tuesday, positioning it as a national referendum, not a state-by-state

race, and then working toward

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