Saylor: MicroStrategy's 2,000-person core software business generates $75M annually
Michael Saylor · MFM #161: Why Michael Saylor Believes Bitcoin is Hope · Mar 17, 2021 · at 47:05
Michael Saylor contrasts MicroStrategy's operational enterprise software cash flows with the potential yields from its Bitcoin balance sheet.
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“Well, all 2000 people doing a 100,000 things right perfectly for the entire year competing against Microsoft that has more money than God, they can generate seventy five million a year.”
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