Michael Saylor may have gone all-in on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), but his path there, as he describes, was riddled with “despair” and self-doubt.
A Decade Of ‘Despair’
In an interview with Natalie Brunell on Nov. 18, 2024, Saylor revealed he had spent a decade trying to do “everything under the sun” at his firm, back when it was called MicroStrategy.
“I was in despair. I had spent 20,000 man-years attempting to do everything under the sun,” he said. “I could not get ahead.”
Saylo said his problem wasn’t that he was “stupid” or lacked work ethic, yet these setbacks sowed seeds of self-doubt.
“The most pernicious thing you can do to someone is you make them think that …