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MicroStrategy Incorporated, doing business as Strategy, is an American development company that provides business intelligence (BI), mobile software, and cloud-based services. Founded in 1989 by Michael J. Saylor, Sanju Bansal, and Thomas Spahr, the firm develops software to analyze internal and external data in order to make business decisions and to develop mobile apps. It is a public company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, in the Washington metropolitan area. Its primary business analytics competitors include SAP AG Business Objects, IBM Cognos, and Oracle Corporation’s BI Platform. Saylor is the Executive Chairman and, from 1989 to 2022, was the CEO.
Since 2020, the company’s securities are widely considered to be a bitcoin proxy due to MicroStrategy’s holdings of the cryptocurrency.
Strategy filed a $4.2 billion share sale to further expand its Bitcoin treasury following record Q2 profits. The firm now holds 594,325 BTC worth $64.4 billion.
Michael Saylor’s Strategy has acquired an additional 4,980 BTC for $531 million, marking its 12th consecutive week of Bitcoin purchases.
Bitcoin (BTC) shot up beyond $87,000 after Strategy (previously MicroStrategy) purchased a massive 6,911 BTC for $584.1 million.