Michael Saylor is an American entrepreneur, executive, inventor, author, and philanthropist. He is the Chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm he founded in 1989. 

Michael is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard (Hope.com) and is the first CEO of a publicly listed company to make a long-term investment in Bitcoin.

He founded and serves as the trustee for the Saylor Academy (Saylor.org), a non-profit organization that provides free education to nearly one million students.

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Timecodes:
0:00 Introduction
0:56 Growing up and young life
2:03 Air Force and College
3:32 Why Michael got into business
7:03 Rockstar and fighter pilot dreams
12:23 Starting MicroStrategy
15:23 Owning profitable domains
20:35 Passion for Big Tech stocks dying
25:40 Discovering Bitcoin
27:50 Bitcoin as Digital Gold
32:34 Re-surfaced Bitcoin Tweet
37:55 How to increase adoption
42:50 Will stock market crash
47:54 Bitcoin as digital property & taxes
58:50 Bitcoin Mining Council & Environment Impact
1:06:25 Elon Musk on Bitcoin
1:08:03 Institutional adoption
1:12:05 Bitcoin to get rich
1:18:35 Toxic Maximalism?
1:21:10 Hornet Lord
1:23:45 Learning from failure
1:28:45 Checking Bitcoin's price
1:29:55 Government and Bitcoin
1:37:41 Saylor Legacy
1:39:50 Final thoughts

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