Who is bitcoin billionaire Michael Saylor? The MicroStrategy CEO’s net worth once dropped by US$6 billion in one day during the dot-com boom … will the same happen with his crypto investments?
- He grew up on various US Air Force bases, went to MIT, and then founded MicroStrategy, providing business intelligence, mobile software and cloud-based services
- Besides being a tech entrepreneur, the former multibillionaire is also a New York Times bestselling author, the founder of Saylor Academy – and used to throw great yacht parties too
It’s not every day that a person loses US$6 billion, so when Michael J. Saylor did exactly that in the 2000s at the height of the internet bubble, he definitely made a name for himself.
So who exactly is Saylor, what is his current net worth and how exactly did he lose billions back in the day? Let’s take a quick dive into the crypto king’s distinctive background.
He had an unusual childhood
Born in 1965, in Nebraska, US, Saylor’s childhood was far from average. He grew up in a military family and lived on various US Air Force bases around the world. Graduating as the class valedictorian in high school, the sky was the limit for the young man.
Thanks to a full Air Force scholarship, Saylor obtained dual degrees in aeronautics and astronautics, as well as science, technology and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It was also in uni where he met his Theta Delta Chi fraternity brother and future co-founder of MicroStrategy, Sanju K. Bansal.
He co-founded MicroStrategy at 24
