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Michael Saylor and Strategy

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  1. 0:00One company quietly owns over 70 billion
  2. 0:02dollars of Bitcoin. This is Michael
  3. 0:04Saylor, more Bitcoin than almost any
  4. 0:06country, bank, or fund. In 2020, he ran
  5. 0:09a boring, shrinking software company.
  6. 0:10Then he put the entire treasury into
  7. 0:12Bitcoin, Bitcoin's loudest believer.
  8. 0:14Then he borrowed billions to buy even
  9. 0:16more. He renamed the company Strategy, a
  10. 0:18Bitcoin buying machine. It now holds
  11. 0:20over 600,000 Bitcoin. The stock became a
  12. 0:23leveraged bet on Bitcoin itself. A
  13. 0:25sleepy software firm became a 100
  14. 0:27billion dollars giant. One coin, one
  15. 0:29bet, and the giants [music] copied him.
  16. 0:31Follow for the builder economy.
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Original YouTube title: “He Bet His Whole Company on $70B of Bitcoin”. The original title may contain claims not confirmed by this companion.

Upload date, duration and captions were retrieved from the public YouTube record on 2026-10-16. Dates are day-level, not an asserted exact upload time. Market values, audience totals and references to “today” belong to the original publication context.

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