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May 2023
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Michael Saylor: Bitcoin & Lightning Netw...

NATALIE BRUNELL
About this episode

This interview was recorded Live at MicroStrategy WORLD 2023 Bitcoin and Lightning for Corporations in Orlando, Florida.

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Michael Saylor is an American entrepreneur, executive, inventor, author, and philanthropist. He is co-founder and Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy ($MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm he founded in 1989. Michael is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard (www.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 (www.saylor.org), a non-profit organization that provides free education to people around the world. 

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