Michael Saylor is the Executive Chairman at Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury company he founded, which operated as MicroStrategy before rebranding in February 2025. He also founded Saylor University, a nonprofit providing free online education to over 3 million students, and Alarm.com. Michael Saylor's Twitter Score is 959 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026.
Michael Saylor led the company's initial bitcoin acquisition in August 2020, when it purchased 21,454 bitcoin for an aggregate price of $250.0 million and adopted bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset. He stepped down as CEO in August 2022 to become Executive Chairman, with Phong Le succeeding him. Strategy joined the Nasdaq-100 index effective December 23, 2024.
Michael Saylor's company held 847,363 bitcoin as of June 21, 2026, with an aggregate purchase price of $64.10 billion and an average purchase price of $75,651 per bitcoin. In May 2026, it recorded its first disclosed bitcoin sale, selling 32 bitcoin for $2.5 million at an average sale price of $77,135, with proceeds expected to fund preferred-stock distributions. In Q3 2025, the company reported net income of $2.8 billion driven by unrealized gains on its cryptocurrency holdings and raised the STRC preferred dividend yield to 10.5% in November 2025.
Michael Saylor consented to a $350,000 civil penalty and $8,280,000 disgorgement as part of a December 2000 settlement with the SEC over allegations that MicroStrategy had materially overstated revenues, without admitting or denying the allegations. In June 2024, he and the company agreed to pay $40 million to settle a District of Columbia lawsuit alleging he had defrauded the city of more than $25 million in taxes from 2005 through 2021; both denied wrongdoing. He is also affiliated with hope.com, a Bitcoin education and advocacy site associated with Strategy.
Michael Saylor ranks #26 (top 0.1%) out of 483,652 accounts tracked on this platform, with 5,178,070 followers as of August 2026 and 8,078 posts. His score places him among the 36 accounts on the platform scoring above 900. He is mentioned by 3,465 accounts, with 15,791 total mentions.
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