Rank #805
Michael Saylor
Net worth $5.3B
Cryptocurrency · United States
- Born
- Feb 04, 1965
- Age
- 61
- Source
- Cryptocurrency
- Residence
- Vienna, Virginia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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.
- One of the best-known executives of the Internet bubble, Saylor was a multibillionaire in the late 1990s thanks to his stake in MicroStrategy.
- He fell from the billionaire ranks after questionable accounting led to a restatement of financial results and the dot-com bust crashed the stock.
- He's a billionaire again thanks to timely bitcoin investments. In October 2020, he disclosed he personally bought 17,732 bitcoins for $175 million.
- He has steered MicroStrategy's corporate coffers into bitcoin, spending billions to accumulate 214,400 bitcoins.
- A former rocket scientist, Saylor studied aeronautics and astronautics at MIT on an Air Force scholarship before founding MicroStrategy in 1989.
- Saylor helped trigger the institutional bitcoin boom in December 2020, when MicroStrategy's bitcoin ownership crossed the $1 billion milestone.
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