Other than this article being from 1982 I didn't find alot interesting in it. There are only a couple of quotes from Michael Bloomberg and the article isn't really about him at all. I guess you could say that I learned that click bait headlines were a thing back in 1982:)

In all seriousness.......

I think the most interesting thing about Michael Bloomberg's success( 13th richest person in the world) is that successful people don't typically come from nowhere, but usually have a very strong track record of successes that predate the event or thing that others associate their success with.

In his case he was:

- an engineer from a good school,

- then got an MBA from Harvard.

- He was then a general partner at Salomon Brothers(the Google of wall street at the time).

He then left with a $10 million buyout in 1981 dollars that he used to fund Bloomberg.

Or put another way, I've always felt that by 25 you are who you will be. There will always be outliers who finds a reason to turn his/her life around but almost all the successful people I know had an impressive track record of accomplishments before their big success happened.

TL/DR success is rarely an overnight event. Most successful people build on an increasing track record of successful events before hitting their big success.