Visionary:Michael Saylor
Michael Saylor
Biography
Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy, Bitcoin advocate and thought leader.
Category
Entrepreneur
Notable Quotes
On Digital Currency and Monetary Policy
"Bitcoin is digital energy, and energy is the fundamental commodity of the universe."
—Michael Saylor, Bitcoin for Corporations (2021), February 3, 2021, MicroStrategy Conference
On Creative Destruction in AI Era
"The half-life of a Fortune 500 company is now 15 years, down from 67 years in the 1920s."
—Michael Saylor, The Mobile Wave (2012), p. 89, Vanguard Press
On Deflation and Central Banking
"Inflation is a vector that steals energy from the productive economy."
—Michael Saylor, What Bitcoin Did Podcast (2023), November 20, 2023, Episode 612
On Zero Marginal Cost Society
"Digital transformation means dematerialization - converting atoms to bits."
—Michael Saylor, MIT Bitcoin Expo (2022), March 12, 2022, Cambridge, MA
On AI Governance and Regulation
"AI will make human intelligence a commodity, Bitcoin will make monetary energy scarce."
—Michael Saylor, Bitcoin 2023 Conference (2023), May 19, 2023, Miami Beach