Michael Saylor

Executive Chairman, Microstrategy

Search every verified Michael Saylor interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), has continued to advocate for Bitcoin as a digital capital asset and has promoted the company's digital credit instrument, STRC (Stretch). In multiple interviews and conference appearances in 2025 and 2026, Saylor described Bitcoin's recent price decline from around $125,000 to $60,000 as a "classic bear market" and stated he believed the asset had found a bottom. He argued that Bitcoin's fundamentals have improved over the past two years, citing regulatory support, the approval of spot ETFs, and growing institutional adoption. Saylor said that Bitcoin's long-term value could reach $7 million per coin, based on his view that it could eventually represent a significant share of global capital. Saylor faced criticism from some Bitcoin proponents after Strategy sold 32 Bitcoin in 2026, which he characterized as a minor transaction relative to the company's total holdings of over 250,000 Bitcoin purchased that year. He stated that the "never sell your Bitcoin" advice was intended for individual retail investors, not for a publicly traded company with fiduciary duties. Saylor described Strategy's business model as one of selling digital credit backed by Bitcoin, and he said the company's STRC instrument, which pays an 11.5% tax-deferred dividend, was designed to attract capital from traditional credit markets. He argued that integrating Bitcoin with credit markets was necessary for the asset to grow and that critics who rejected such financial instruments were "Twitter trolls" rather than Bitcoin maximalists.