Entrepreneurs Who Turned Politicans
By siliconindia
Michael Bloomberg
Michel Rubens Bloomberg serves as the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion and is the founder and 88 percent owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and information services media company. iin 2001, Bloomberg entered the race of politics by registration for mayor as a Republican and winning the election that year and again in 2005. But he left the party over some controversy and ran for his third term in 2009 as an independent candidate for the 2008 presidential election. But unfortunately, neither he seeked the presidency nor was he selected as a running mate by any of the presidential candidates. However, he won the election in November 2009.