Company · Finance · founded 1910
Salomon Brothers
American investment bank in New York City, founded in 1910 and acquired by Phibro Corporation in 1981. Citigroup dropped the name in 2003. Michael Bloomberg worked there from 1966 until 1981.
Of the 1 person here linked to Salomon Brothers, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Salomon Brothers
Employee Past
Role
Hired in 1966 at $9,000 a year; moved to the equities desk; general partner from 1972, 1966–1981
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia's Michael Bloomberg page says he became a general partner at Salomon Brothers in 1972, and Biography.com (https://www.biography.com/political-figures/michael-bloomberg) says he became partner in 1972, so the profile text stands. End year inferred from the page: he left when Phibro acquired the firm in 1981 and he started his own company.
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Michael Bloomberg
Founder, Bloomberg LP; three-term Mayor of New York City
middle-class · well-connected · graduate degree