Michael Saylor: Executive Chairman and Co-founder of Strategy (MicroStrategy)
Business Owner · Cryptocurrency & Fintech
Michael Saylor co-founded MicroStrategy, now Strategy Inc., and has led the company to buy over 800,000 bitcoins for its balance sheet.
About Michael Saylor: Executive Chairman and Co-founder of Strategy (MicroStrategy)
Michael Jerry Saylor (born February 4, 1965, in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American entrepreneur and billionaire business executive, the executive chairman and co-founder of Strategy Inc., formerly MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software and cloud-based services. He is a bitcoin advocate who strongly supports organizations adding bitcoin to their balance sheets; under Saylor MicroStrategy has spent billions of dollars to buy over 800,000 bitcoins. He wrote the 2012 book The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything and is the sole trustee of Saylor Academy, a provider of free online education. Saylor spent his early years on various Air Force bases around the world, as his father was an Air Force chief master sergeant, and when he was 11 the family settled in Fairborn, Ohio, near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In 1983 he enrolled at MIT on a full Air Force ROTC scholarship, joined Theta Delta Chi, where he met his future MicroStrategy co-founder Sanju Bansal, and double-majored in aeronautical and astronautical engineering and the history of science. A medical condition kept him from becoming a pilot. Sources: English Wikipedia (Michael J. Saylor, accessed September 2026).
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Executive Chairman and co-founder, Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy)
Company Details
Strategy Inc. (MicroStrategy)
Business Intelligence Software, Bitcoin Treasury