Then it was on to talking about a visit he made to Stanford University and Silicon Valley: “I noticed every guy down there is dating a woman named Siri.” I had a girlfriend over in Marin, but I can’t remember her name,” he said with the smoothness of a man who has been playing the epic character of Michael Bloomberg for 72 years now. “I like this city, I have come here a lot. So, to attract those geeks, it was time for a little Bloomberg soft-shoe. The new facility will house up to 100 engineers. While the company has long had a killer-view HQ for its media unit on the Embarcadero, most of its technical staff has been located in New York. What he was really there to talk about was a new R&D office set to open in San Francisco for Bloomberg LP to attract software developers.

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a little late to his own geek party this morning at WeWork in the South of Market area of San Francisco.īut when he got to the event at the hipster co-working office space - where his goal was to mix and mingle with a group of local entrepreneurs, such as Dropbox’s Drew Houston and Eventbrite’s Julia Hartz - Bloomberg started in with a charm initiative designed to show how interested he was in making nice with the digerati here.

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