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 954 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 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 493,668 accounts tracked on this platform, with 5,216,961 followers as of October 2026 and 8,374 posts. His score places him among the 35 accounts on the platform scoring above 900. He is mentioned by 3,675 accounts, with 16,501 total mentions.
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