Editing MicroStrategy (section)

{{short description|American technology company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = MicroStrategy Incorporated
| logo = Strategy logo (2025).svg
| logo_size = 250px
| logo_caption = Logo used since 2025
| trade_name = Strategy
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{ubl|class=nowrap|{{NASDAQ|MSTR}} (Class A)|[[Nasdaq-100]] component}}
| industry = {{ubl|[[Bitcoin]] [[treasury]]<ref name="strategy-rebrand"/>|[[Business intelligence]]|Mobile software}}
| founded = {{Start date and age|1989}}
| hq_location = [[Tysons Corner, Virginia]], U.S.
| founders = {{ubl|[[Michael J. Saylor]]| [[Sanju Bansal]]| Thomas Spahr}}
| key_people = {{ubl|Michael J. Saylor ([[executive chairman]])| Phong Le ([[President (corporate title)|president]] & [[Chief executive officer|CEO]])}}
| revenue = {{decrease}} {{US$|463.5|link=yes}}{{nbsp}}million
| revenue_year = 2024
| net_income = {{decrease}} US$−1.167{{nbsp}}billion
| net_income_year = 2024
| assets = {{increase}} US$25.844{{nbsp}}billion (2024)<br />
(92.5%: 447,470{{nbsp}}[[Bitcoin]] = US$23.9{{nbsp}}billion ([[Book value]]))
| equity = {{increase}} US$18.23{{nbsp}}billion
| equity_year = 2024
| num_employees = 1,934<ref name="2023-10-K">{{Cite web |date=February 15, 2024 |title=Microstrategy Form 10-K |url=https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1050446/000095017024015847/mstr-20231231.htm |access-date=2024-07-25 |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission}}</ref>
| num_employees_year = 2023
| website = {{URL|strategysoftware.com}}
| footnotes = <ref name="2024-q4-results">{{cite press release |date=February 5, 2025 |title=Strategy Announces Fourth Quarter 2024 Financial Results; Holds 471,107 BTC |location=[[Tysons Corner|Tysons Corner, Virginia]] |publisher=MicroStrategy Incorporated |agency=Business Wire |url=https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf8d808d9b8cebd37/blt269be5746d25b795/67a3d0ea956a023640ba6356/strategy-announces-fourth-quarter-2024-financial-results-and-launches-new-website-strategy-com_02-05-2025.pdf |access-date=2025-02-11}}</ref>
| module = {{Infobox network service provider|child=yes}}
}}

'''MicroStrategy Incorporated''', [[trade name|doing business as]] '''Strategy''',<ref name="strategy-rebrand">{{cite news |title=MicroStrategy is Now Strategy |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250205834633/en/MicroStrategy-is-Now-Strategy |access-date=5 February 2025 |publisher=Business Wire}}</ref> is an American development company that provides [[business intelligence]] (BI), mobile [[software]], and [[cloud computing|cloud-based services]]. Founded in 1989 by [[Michael J. Saylor]], [[Sanju Bansal]], and Thomas Spahr, the firm develops software to analyze internal and external data in order to make business decisions and to develop mobile apps. It is a [[public company]] headquartered in [[Tysons, Virginia|Tysons Corner, Virginia]], in the [[Washington metropolitan area]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Perez |first=Juan Carlos |date=January 21, 2008 |title=Customers Trust MicroStrategy's Independence |work=[[PC World]] |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/141566/article.html}}</ref> Its primary business analytics competitors include [[SAP AG]] [[Business Objects]], [[IBM]] [[Cognos]], and [[Oracle Corporation]]'s BI Platform.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kanaracus |first=Chris |date=April 19, 2011 |title=Microstrategy Takes Aim at Self-service BI |work=[[PC World]] |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/225619/article.html}}</ref><ref name="Howson13">{{Cite news |last=Howson |first=Cindi |date=February 14, 2013 |title=MicroStrategy Doubles Down On Mobile, Data Visualization |work=[[InformationWeek]] |url=http://www.informationweek.com/software/business-intelligence/microstrategy-doubles-down-on-mobile-dat/240148518}}</ref> Saylor is the Executive Chairman and, from 1989 to 2022, was the CEO.<ref name="Jaffe00">{{Cite news |last=Jaffe |first=Harry |date=March 1, 2000 |title=The Seven Billion Dollar Man |work=[[Washingtonian (magazine)|Washingtonian]] |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2000/03/01/the-seven-billion-dollar-man/}}</ref><ref name="2019-10-K">{{Cite web |date=2020-02-13 |title=Microstrategy form 10-K |url=https://ir.microstrategy.com/node/20946/html |access-date=2020-03-26 |website=Microstrategy Investor Relations}}</ref><ref name="cnbc-2022-08-02">{{cite news |last1=Sigalos |first1=MacKenzie |title=MicroStrategy CEO Saylor moves to chairman role, focusing on strategy and bitcoin |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/02/microstrategy-ceo-saylor-moves-to-chairman-role-focusing-on-strategy-and-bitcoin.html |access-date=August 9, 2022 |work=CNBC |date=August 2, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> 

Since 2020, the company's securities are widely considered to be a [[bitcoin]] proxy due to MicroStrategy's holdings of the [[cryptocurrency]]. The company's executive chairman has compared it to a bitcoin [[spot market|spot]] [[exchange-traded fund#Leveraged_ETFs|leveraged ETF]],<ref name="cnbc-2022-08-02"/> though it's not a regulated [[investment fund]].