Michael Saylor sped by 44 slides in simply three minutes throughout a frantic promise-filled pitch meant to persuade software program titan Microsoft to undertake bitcoin.
Throughout the PowerPoint speedrun — which noticed one slide seen for simply two seconds — Saylor pitched some fairly extravagant bitcoin advantages. These included the declare that Microsoft may add nearly $5 trillion to its market cap if it adopted the foreign money and invested $100 billion yearly.
The complete Michael Saylor pitch.
Saylor additionally used bitcoin to discredit Microsoft’s personal inventory. “It makes a lot more sense to buy more bitcoin than to buy your own stock back or to hold bitcoin rather than holding bonds,” he stated whereas a chart confirmed bitcoin outperforming Microsoft by 10x.
He additionally famous that since 2020, Microsoft’s inventory rose 103% whereas MicroStrategy’s surged 3,045%.
Throughout the presentation, Saylor additionally claimed that bitcoin was freed from 27 totally different dangers, together with capital positive aspects tax, regulation, power, climate, and struggle and crime. Not solely that, he additionally stated that investing in digital capital is free from the issues that include investing in real-life buildings, together with the problems of mayors, tenants, site visitors, and “trouble.”
The pitch additionally touched on bitcoin help from varied exchange-traded funds, mining firms, and international locations and famous rising political help from the likes of Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk.
“Do the right thing for your customers, employees, shareholders, the country, the world, and your legacy. Adopt bitcoin,” the ultimate slide learn.
It’s price noting that Saylor’s pitch didn’t contact on bitcoin’s unstable value motion or the troublesome nature of predicting it. For the time being, bitcoin is price roughly $95,000. MicroStrategy at the moment holds 386,700 cash price over $38 billion.
