Twenty-two years before he bet his company on bitcoin, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor sat down for a long interview with Forbes during which he invoked Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Churchill, Caesar and Lincoln. At that point, in 1998, the company was a Wall Street darling, thanks to its dot-com-era…
Most people dismiss billionaire Michael Saylor’s publicly traded MicroStrategy as a giant, risky bet on bitcoin. A closer look reveals a masterwork that’s a blueprint for manipulating traditional finance to harness the pixie dust fueling crypto mania. By Nina Bambysheva, Forbes Staff New Year’s Eve at Villa Vecchia is a…
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