Interesting read on Bloomberg, anybody work for them?

http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=5023

My back of a Post-It note math that's based on the story says the Bloomberg terminals bring in about $6 billion in revenue annually. Roughly 300,000 subscribers and each paying $20,000 annually.

Looks like they figured out a way to monetize the Interwebs.

The story is pretty fascinating. Sounds like a pressure cooker of a work environment but they pay people very well. And not very well on the newspaper scale, but very well on the corporate scale because they also throw out big bonuses.

 

i pictured brazil while reading this...

 

I would be so self-conscious of what I wrote if I knew there was a chance someone at Bloomberg was going to read it.

 

I had to go to a Bloomberg office once, it was like visiting the future. Also, they had a ton of snacks.

 

Our joint is doing something along these lines. Like Bloomberg, we offer a lot of information on a niche market where people are willing to spend premium cash for instant data.

 

That's exactly what I thought about it. I told a friend that it was like going to Tomorrowland. Did you get to go on the curved escalator?

 

I would love to see that style manual, but it's out of print and not on Amazon. Do I have to get a job there to get one? Without that manual, how will I ever get good enough to get there? Help.

 

Their TV network strikes me as Al Jazeera for the financial world; it's a bit off beat, grainy picture, outsiders' mentality, but it has interesting topics and stories.