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Last researched 19 Jul 2026, 23:12 UTC
Michael Saylor is an aggressive Bitcoin evangelist whose track record is highly polarized. While his company's massive treasury acquisition strategy generated substantial paper profits, his public predictions are often characterized by extreme hyperbole and high-risk advice. Skeptical analysis reveals a history of missed price targets, incorrect regulatory assumptions, and a forced abandonment of his core corporate 'never-sell' doctrine due to debt realities.
Calls (8)
18 Dec 2013
bearish
incorrect
verified
#Bitcoin days are numbered. It seems like just a matter of time before it suffers the same fate as online gambling.
Bitcoin did not fail and instead experienced exponential growth over the next decade, with Saylor's own company eventually adopting it as a primary treasury reserve asset.
1 Mar 2021
bullish
incorrect
verified
The only use of time is to buy more Bitcoin... take all your money and buy Bitcoin. And if you absolutely love the thing that you don't want to sell it, go mortgage your house and buy Bitcoin with it.
Bitcoin peaked soon after and fell into a multi-year bear market, bottoming over 70% below this call price, leaving leveraged buyers underwater for years.
10 May 2022
neutral
correct
verified
target: $3,562
MicroStrategy has a $205M term loan and needs to maintain $410M as collateral. If BTC price pools below $3,562 the company could post some other collateral.
Although Bitcoin fell below $21,000, MicroStrategy successfully managed the loan-to-value ratio by posting more collateral, avoided a margin call, and repaid the loan in full in 2023.
2 May 2024
bearish
incorrect
verified
Ethereum is an unregistered security. None of them (ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP, ADA) will ever be wrapped by a spot ETF. None of them will be accepted by Wall Street.
The SEC approved key filings for spot Ethereum ETFs just three weeks later, and they launched in July 2024, prompting a public retraction from Saylor.
1 Jul 2024
bullish
pending
verified
target: $13,000,000
Bitcoin will reach $13 million per coin by the year 2045 under a base case scenario.
The target date of 2045 is far in the future. Critics note that a $13 million price implies a $270 trillion market cap, which vastly exceeds current global GDP.
10 Jun 2025
bullish
partially correct
verified
target: $1,000,000
Crypto winter is not coming back. Bitcoin is headed to $1 million.
While the ultra-long-term $1 million target is pending, his claim that crypto winter or deep corrections would not return was proven wrong by a 34% drop in early 2026.
29 Oct 2025
bullish
incorrect
verified
target: $150,000
Bitcoin would finish 2025 trading at approximately $150,000.
Bitcoin peaked at around $126,000 in October 2025 and failed to reach the $150,000 target by the end of the year.
Undated
bullish
incorrect
verified
MicroStrategy would 'never sell' its Bitcoin.
In 2026, Strategy Inc. walked back this policy and filed to sell 3,588 BTC for $216 million to pay preferred stock dividends, clarifying that the advice was for individuals rather than corporations.