Biography: Michael Saylor is the executive chairman of MicroStrategy, a U.S. technology company that provides services such as data analytics, business intelligence and cloud-based solutions. Saylor founded the firm in 1989. He is also the founder of Alarm.com, a company he formed in 2000. Alarm.com operated as a MicroStrategy subsidiary until 2009, when it was sold to a group of investors that included ABS Capital Partners. Besides his involvement in corporate endeavors, Saylor also authored a book titled The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything, which was published in 2012. In this book, he highlights that the changes brought about by mobile technology are too widespread and complex for most people to fathom. Saylor joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, where he studied aeronautics and astronautics. He graduated from the institution in 1987. While at MIT, he enrolled as a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, where he met Sanju Bansal, a close friend who later became a MicroStrategy co-founder. In 1988, Saylor got a job at DuPont as an internal consultant, where he was tasked with developing computer models designed to predict market movements. He formed MicroStrategy the following year and assumed the role of CEO until August 2022, when he stepped down but remained chairman of its board of directors.