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- 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

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