Michael Saylor

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

• Saylor was born to a military family in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• He spent his childhood living on various U.S. Air Force bases around the world.
• By his teenage years, his family had settled at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.
• He graduated from high school first in his class, served as both class marshal and valedictorian, and was voted most likely to succeed by his peers.
• He attended MIT on a full Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship.
• While studying system dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, he became fascinated by the application of computer simulation technology to public policy and business strategy.
• He graduated in 1987 with the highest honors from MIT.

AIR FORCE

• Saylor has successfully completed flight officer training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
• He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
• He joined the Air Force Reserve and began a career in consulting, with a focus on constructing computer simulations to support strategic decision-making at companies such as DuPont, Dow, and Exxon.

NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

• Saylor is a named inventor on more than 40 patents.
• He is credited as the inventor of relational analytics.
• He led MicroStrategy into the fields of web analytics, distributed analytics, mobile analytics, cloud computing, mobile identity, and the internet of things.
• He was the creator and founder of Alarm.com, one of the first home automation and security companies, and Angel.com, one of the first cloud-based interactive voice response service providers.

• In October 2020, he disclosed he personally bought 17,732 bitcoins for $175 million.

• He helped trigger the institutional bitcoin boom in December 2020, when MicroStrategy's bitcoin ownership crossed the $1 billion milestone.

PHILANTHROPY

• Saylor established The Saylor Foundation in 1999, which has donated millions to philanthropic causes including children's health, refugee relief, education, environmental conservation, and support for the arts.
• He founded and serves as a trustee for the Saylor Academy, which offers free college education and continuing professional development courses to students worldwide.
• He participated in the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy in 2015 and 2016.

MEDIA AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Saylor travels 175,000 miles per year to more than 60 cities and 25 countries to share his perspectives on enterprise analytics and mobility with technology and business audiences.
• He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.