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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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