MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy Incorporated
Company typePublic
IndustryBusiness intelligence and mobile software
Founded1989; 35 years ago (1989)
Founders
HeadquartersTysons Corner, Virginia, U.S.
Key people
RevenueDecrease US$496 million (2023)
Increase US$429 million (2023)
Total assetsIncrease US$4.76 billion (2023)
Total equityIncrease US$2.16 billion (2023)
Number of employees
1,934 (2023)
Websitemicrostrategy.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

MicroStrategy Incorporated is an American Bitcoin 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.[2] Its primary business analytics competitors include SAP AG Business Objects, IBM Cognos, and Oracle Corporation's BI Platform.[3][4] Saylor is the Executive Chairman and, from 1989 to 2022, was the CEO.[5][6][7] It is widely considered to be a bitcoin proxy due to its massive holdings of the cryptocurrency.

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