PROFILE
Michael Saylor
$4B
$55M (1.37%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 4/25/24
#789 in the world todayReflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
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About Michael Saylor
- 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 over $4.5 billion in company cash and borrowings on nearly 130,000 bitcoins.
- A former rocket scientist, Saylor studied aeronautics and astronautics at MIT on an Air Force scholarship before founding MicroStrategy in 1989.
Wealth History
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 59
- Source of Wealth
- cryptocurrency, Self Made
- Residence
- Vienna, Virginia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Single
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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