{"id":131817,"date":"2026-08-06T16:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/131817\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:59:22","slug":"crypto-billionaire-says-he-made-15-billion-last-year-with-chatgpt-and-has-one-rule-for-those-who-want-make-it-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/131817\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto billionaire says he made $15 billion last year with ChatGPT\u2014and has one rule for those who want make it big"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the age of AI, the key to building wealth isn\u2019t trying to compete with machines\u2014it\u2019s using them to your advantage. That\u2019s at least according to billionaire Michael Saylor<\/a>, who recently created ChatGPT to help his company make $15 billion last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re in your working years where you want to upgrade the world and make a difference and be remembered for something\u2014then a pretty simple principle is don\u2019t keep doing the same thing over and over, working harder and harder every year, fighting against the modern automation, epidemic,\u201d Saylor said in a Diary of a CEO interview published on Thursday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t try to outwork the robots.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 61-year-old made the comment after podcaster Steven Bartlett<\/a> asked him what it takes to build a legacy on the scale of someone like Michael Jackson or Elon Musk\u2014and become globally recognized for your impact.<\/p>\n

Saylor\u2019s advice comes from his own experience transforming Strategy<\/a>, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy. He founded the software firm in 1989 but in the last half-decade shifted its focus toward Bitcoin<\/a>, becoming the first publicly traded company to adopt the cryptocurrency as a major part of its treasury strategy.<\/p>\n

After Strategy exhausted more traditional ways of raising capital to buy more cryptocurrency, Saylor said he turned to ChatGPT to help design a Bitcoin-based preferred stock that lawyers and bankers initially questioned because no one had created a similar product before. Strategy ultimately raised about $15 billion through an IPO<\/a> and related offerings\u2014leading Saylor to say AI \u201cmade\u201d him $15 billion.<\/p>\n

For entrepreneurs and workers looking to capitalize on the AI boom, Saylor said using the technology is a \u201cno brainer\u201d\u2014but the advantage comes from asking better questions, not simply automating existing tasks.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t want to learn how to do things the AI can do. What you want to do is learn how to ask the AI to do something that\u2019s never been done before,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026If you want to create these incredible success things, you want to locate the magic opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saylor\u2019s Bitcoin bet comes with a familiar risk: going all in<\/p>\n

While Saylor\u2019s net worth currently sits at $3.3 billion, according to Forbes<\/a>, his latest AI-fueled strategy has not been without risks. Strategy\u2019s Bitcoin-heavy approach\u2014and its use of preferred stock to raise more capital\u2014has left the company increasingly tied to the cryptocurrency\u2019s performance. Fortune\u2019s Shawn Tully has described<\/a> the structure as \u201cdangerously\u201d leveraged to Bitcoin\u2019s price.<\/p>\n

That exposure has come into focus this year: Bitcoin is down 26%, while Strategy shares have fallen 38%. However, Saylor argued that big breakthroughs often require enduring setbacks, and his company\u2019s willingness to adapt through challenges has been central to its success.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found some extraordinary cool thing. We committed to it with all of our heart and soul and we declared we were going to make it work come hell or high water,\u201d Saylor said. \u201cWe got punched in the face a hundred times. And every single time we ran into a problem, we stopped, we recalibrated, we went a different direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time Saylor\u2019s aggressive bets have come with major consequences. After MicroStrategy\u2019s stock surge during the dot-com boom helped make him a billionaire, the company was forced to restate its financial results after disclosing that revenue from 1999 had been overstated by 25%.<\/p>\n

The accounting scandal cost him $6 billion in one day<\/a>\u2014the most any single person had ever lost in the span of 24 hours up to then. The SEC accused him of violating federal securities laws later that year, and he settled the charges<\/a>, paying $8 million to the agency but never admitting any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Fortune reached out to Strategy for further comment.<\/p>\n

From Satya Nadella to Mark Cuban, business executives agree that AI is a tool for ambitious builders<\/p>\n

Saylor is not the only business leader urging professionals to embrace AI as a tool for innovation rather than just a threat to their jobs. Other executives have argued that the biggest opportunities in the AI era will come from people who combine the technology with uniquely human skills.<\/p>\n

Microsoft<\/a> CEO Satya Nadella<\/a> has said that while AI will help workers get more done, the future of work will require more than just adopting the technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see these technologies acting as a co-pilot, helping people do more with less,\u201d he said<\/a> at the World Economic Forum\u2019s annual Davos, Switzerland, meeting in 2023. \u201cThe future of work is not just about technology and tools. It\u2019s about new management practices and sensibilities to the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has taken the idea even further, predicting that entrepreneurs who know how to use AI to solve problems could create unprecedented wealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always something bigger and better that\u2019s created by an innovative entrepreneur,\u201d Cuban said on the High Performance podcast<\/a> last year. \u201cBut AI just dwarfs all that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the age of AI, the key to building wealth isn\u2019t trying to compete with machines\u2014it\u2019s using them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8263,3970,65768,580,31116,3277,6573,802,6323,23604,157,1690,2619,11604,2944],"class_list":["post-131817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-bitcoin","tag-building-your-career","tag-career-tips","tag-chatgpt","tag-corporate-strategy","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-founders","tag-microstrategy","tag-openai","tag-productivity","tag-strategy","tag-wealth","tag-worker-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}