Technique (previously MicroStrategy) founder Michael Saylor could nicely have misplaced greater than $4 billion of his personal cash within the final six months thanks largely to declines within the worth of bitcoin (BTC) and his firm’s MSTR inventory.
Certainly, Protos has examined Forbes’ most up-to-date estimate of Saylor’s private wealth and located it to be doubtless appropriate — albeit incomplete — primarily based on Saylor’s restricted public disclosures.
As of Might 2, 2025, Saylor owned 19,616,680 shares of Technique class B widespread inventory, a ten:1 supervoting class of MSTR that empowers him with 43.58% voting energy over the corporate.
Value over $3.9 billion as of Friday’s closing worth, this can be a 52% drop from its $8 billion worth six months in the past. Regardless of this, Saylor’s class B fairness stays his largest supply of private wealth.
Though Technique didn’t disclose Saylor’s class B possession in its newest quarterly report, his class B possession is probably going unchanged. Corporations usually don’t present particular person breakdowns of main govt possession except there’s a big change.
As additional proof, Saylor hasn’t filed a Kind 3 or 4 to reveal insider transactions with the Securities and Trade Fee since April 2024.
In abstract, though solely Technique’s personal executives and board members possess real-time data of Saylor’s class B possession, it’s possible that he nonetheless owns the identical 19,616,680 shares, no less than for the needs of estimating his internet value primarily based on public data.
Michael Saylor’s non-Technique property
Saylor additionally owns varied different property, together with tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} value of actual property and yachts. He additionally owns many priceless, single-word .com domains.
He’s additionally derived wealth from gross sales of normal, class A typical inventory. Through the month of April 2024, for instance, he exercised important portions of MSTR convertibles after which instantly bought no less than $370 million value of the inventory.
Saylor then continued to promote a number of tens of thousands and thousands extra to complete a pre-disclosed plan to promote as much as 400,000 shares. The identical sample didn’t repeat in April 2025.
It’s not clear what Saylor did with the proceeds of those April 2024 gross sales. He may have bought extra BTC, spent the money, donated it, saved it, or in any other case used it for quite a lot of functions.
Lastly, he additionally owns a considerable amount of bitcoin (BTC) on a private foundation, exterior of Technique’s company treasury.
In August 2024, Saylor admitted to proudly owning 17,732 BTC, though that amount may need modified considerably since his final disclosure. If — and provided that — that amount is unchanged, Saylor would personal $1.6 billion value of BTC immediately.
Placing all of it collectively, Saylor doubtless owns greater than $3.9 billion value of Technique class B inventory, greater than $1.6 billion value of BTC, no less than tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} value of actual property, untold thousands and thousands of {dollars} value of web domains, and unknown portions of private property resembling personal equities and paintings.
In different phrases, he most likely owns no less than $5.5 billion value of Technique fairness and BTC, plus additional property.
Bloomberg, Forbes, and unknown estimates
As of November 17, Forbes employees estimates Saylor’s value at $5.9 billion — a 41% decline since its $10.1 billion estimate six months in the past.
Forbes gives minimal disclosure as to the supply of property they contemplate. Nonetheless, its estimate appears to incorporate his doubtless holdings of sophistication B inventory and BTC, plus an additional $400 million from different asset classes.
Though nobody is aware of besides Saylor himself, if it’s true that he’s has misplaced $4.1 billion value of worth from the 52% decline in his class B holdings, plus one other $200 million loss from the 11% decline in his BTC, his six month loss may certainly come to $4.2 billion.
Furthermore, he may need truly loved some appreciation in his actual property, artwork, boats, or different private property.
