Michael Bloomberg, entrepreneur, media mogul, and then-Mayor of New York City, delivered the commencement address at UNC Chapel Hill in 2012. He structured his seven pieces of advice around basketball analogies fitting for the Tar Heel audience, comparing career decisions to filling out tournament brackets. Bloomberg shared a personal example of turning down a higher-paying job early in his career because he had a better feeling about the people at another firm, calling it one of the best decisions he ever made. His advice to follow your heart and gut rather than chase the highest salary reflected his own unconventional career path from engineering to finance to media to politics.