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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Business intelligence and mobile software |
| Founded | 1989 |
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| Headquarters | Tysons Corner, Virginia, U.S. |
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| Revenue |  US$496 million (2023) |
 US$429 million (2023) | |
| Total assets | US$4.76 billion (2023) |
| Total equity | US$2.16 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 1,934 (2023) |
| Website | microstrategy |
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MicroStrategy Incorporated 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.[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]
The company's securities are widely considered to be a bitcoin proxy due to MicroStrategy's holdings of the cryptocurrency.
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- ^ Sigalos, MacKenzie (August 2, 2022). "MicroStrategy CEO Saylor moves to chairman role, focusing on strategy and bitcoin". CNBC. Retrieved August 9, 2022.