During the years that billionaire Michael Bloomberg served as New York's mayor, tech companies were sure they had a friend in City Hall.
The aggressively pro-business entrepreneur-turned-politician came into office shortly after the dotcom collapse of the 1990s and served as mayor from 2002 to 2013--which, as it happens, are the years New York City became (distant) second only to the Bay Area in terms of tech innovation. Bloomberg built a city office dedicated to growing the tech industry and gladly served as cheerleader for the city's tech sector.
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