Michael J. Saylor, Former Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy
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Michael J. Saylor, Former Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy

Michael Saylor founded business analytics software firm MicroStrategy and ran it as CEO until early August 2022, when he moved into the chairman's role.
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Michael Saylor launched the publicly listed business intelligence company MicroStrategy (MSTR) in 1989, and he currently serves as its executive chairman. In addition, he is the creator of Alarm.com (ALRM), the author of “The Mobile Wave,” and listed as an inventor on more than 40 patents. Over a million students have received free education thanks to the non-profit Saylor Academy (saylor.org), which he created and is a trustee of. He is a supporter of hope.com, the Bitcoin Standard. He graduated from MIT with two degrees in science history and aerospace engineering.

“I regret the good ideas I pursued, because they were dilutive/distracting to the great ideas.”


2023

Michael Saylor owes his software company’s ability to compete with Apple, Microsoft, and other renowned seven stocks to the world’s largest cryptocurrency. MicroStrategy’s stock increased by 246% in 2023 and by 6% in November, when it was trading at around $492 per share.

Saylor said that his business started looking for a “high-growth digital monopoly” to invest in and determined that the most promising asset was bitcoin. “We realized bitcoin is like a high-tech dominant digital network growing at 40% or 50% a year, and so we bought it,” he explained. “It’s kept growing at 40% to 50% a year, and now we’re using our balance sheet to grow the company.”


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