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.