- be Michael Saylor
- kid grows up on US Air Force bases
- military family
- smart as hell in school, gets to MIT
- can’t become a pilot because of a heart issue
- ends up going into software instead
- 1989: starts MicroStrategy at 24
- builds tools for companies to understand their data
- lands a huge McDonald’s deal in the 90s
- gets rich fast in the dotcom boom
- 1998: company goes public
- stock explodes
- Saylor becomes a billionaire overnight
- then 2000 hits
- accounting mess, SEC case, stock nukes
- loses $6B in one day
- settles, survives, stays in charge
- patents, business software, stays in tech
- 2012: writes a book predicting the mobile + cloud world
- then 2020 changes everything
- looks at cash and says “this is dying”
- discovers Bitcoin
- August 2020: starts buying BTC with company treasury
- first CEO to do it at full scale
- keeps buying through every dip
- MicroStrategy becomes a Bitcoin vehicle
- 2022 steps down as CEO, stays as chairman
- only job now: buy more Bitcoin
- 2025 rebrands company into “Strategy”
- by 2026: holds 700k+ BTC
- biggest corporate stash on earth
- never sells, just accumulates
- becomes the face of institutional Bitcoin
- now losing $6,100,000,000
- still buying BTC
- For now
