Say what you will about Michael Saylor, he is not lacking for admirers on Wall Street.
Once a year Saylor takes all employees on an ocean cruise -- no spouses invited.
Saylor decries massive annual outlays on education in the U.S. that at best produce uneven results.
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As the Chairman and CEO of publicly-traded MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor has created quite a few jobs.
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"We're playing for all the marbles, to essentially win the entire industry, worldwide, forever, " says Saylor grandly.
"Our culture is part intellectual, part military, part fraternity, part religion, " says Saylor.
The soft-spoken Bansal smooths ruffled feathers when the zealot Saylor goes too far.
Saylor seems to think that sales of e-books will subsidize their continued existence.
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Great Company, Bad Stock Michael Saylor, founder of a data warehousing and e-commerce outfit called MicroStrategy, is an impressive guy.
They are out in front of the mobile wave described in my earlier interview with MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor.
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And Saylor predicts that warehoused information about each consumer's buying habits, combined with push technology like Broadcaster, will dramatically expand direct selling.
The son of an Air Force noncommissioned officer, Saylor grew up devouring history books and is obsessed with larger-than-life heroes and zealots.
Saylor was one of the great businessman seers of the Internet bubble.
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Saylor notes that each economic revolution is faster than the other one.
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Indeed, throughout The Mobile Wave Saylor with great articulation explains that what holds civilization back is wasted labor in areas that technology should erase.
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As yet unnamed and sketchy in details, Saylor's free university proposal is the sort of deep-pocketed scheme that could turn the burgeoning sector upside down.
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Saylor planned to be an Air Force fighter pilot and astronaut.
Saylor carries this competitive intensity into all areas of his life.
W. Bush, insisted that it was not a referendum of Nixon, arguing that Saylor had been winning in a Democratic district because of his personal popularity.
So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher.
Those who remember Saylor from the dotcom era are now feeling a little nostalgia, either warm or clammy, depending on whether they owned Microstrategy stock back then.
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The first warning sign for the GOP came in early February in Pennsylvania, in the race to succeed Rep. John Saylor (R), who had died the previous October.
Saylor, the author and CEO, estimates 5 billion people will have smartphones in the next five years, giving those people access to the mobile Internet and apps.
Saylor sees the smartphone as the payment device for all things, including the key to hotel rooms that we no longer need a front desk to check into.
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This clearly excites Saylor, and it should excite all readers.
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So while Americans were the certain beneficiaries of farming advances that freed up their labor, Saylor writes that 36.7% of the worldwide labor force is still stuck in agriculture.
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Equally important, Saylor talked MIT fraternity brother Sanju K. Bansal, an Indian-born engineer with a master's in computer science, into leaving Booz, Allen to join him in the new business.
The United States used to be very much an agrarian society, yet Saylor writes that agriculture workers as a percentage of the U.S. labor force today are less than 1%.
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Saylor is in the information sorting and extraction business.
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