Michael Saylor Bitcoin Dream Job – Bitcoin Magazine
This is an opinion piece by Boomer, a longtime and active member of the financial independence/early retirement (FIRE) movement.
Michael Saylor recently announced that he will step down as MicroStrategy’s CEO so he can devote more of his time to Bitcoin. I can understand why he doesn’t want to be distracted by the day-to-day operations of a software company when he’s focused on spending as much time and energy as he can on spreading the word about Satoshi Nakamoto. This means he’ll have more time on his hands for 17-part podcasts with Robert Breedlove, and if we’re lucky, several awkward five-minute interviews with the talking heads from CNBC asking him for the thousandth time about Bitcoin’s price volatility. Am I the only one who finds these interviews absolutely hilarious? As much as I love hearing him go deep with an expert, there’s something about his smile when he talks to the mainstream media that I just love.
He has already stated that he plans to use his time to buy more Bitcoin and to educate CEOs on why and how to keep the asset on the balance sheet, but I wonder… what does he have in mind for the next few years?
Perhaps Saylor is planning to take the Jack Dorsey route, where he will create an innovative Bitcoin-centric technology company. Maybe he wants to head up a Bitcoin-only venture capital firm to fund interesting projects and companies in space. Or maybe we continue to do exactly what he said he was going to do and in the next few months we will see a wave of companies start putting BTC on their balance sheets. Saylor can literally do anything he wants. I wonder, what would Michael Saylor’s dream job with Bitcoin be?
I don’t have much in common with Michael Saylor, but one thing we share is the love of talking about Bitcoin. There’s nothing I like more than having a coffee with another Bitcoiner and talking about what’s going on in the world of magical internet money. I go to meetings as often as I can, and I’m lucky to have a few orange-pilled friends that I see often, but how awesome would it be to work in a place where everyone just talked about Bitcoin all day? I guess my dream job with Bitcoin would be to work on a physical Bitcoin community node like what happens at Bitcoin Park in Nashville or at Bitcoin Commons in Austin. One of the many things that makes Bitcoin special is that it really is the link between the digital and physical worlds, and these physical spaces where people can come together and move Bitcoin forward are so incredibly important. What if the giga-chad himself aspired to the same thing? What if, after years of attending board meetings, followed by endless compliance standards and repeated media commitments, all he wanted to do was make lattes and hang out with the plebs? What if he just wanted to be a fly on the wall and soak up the energy of Bitcoin? What if he just wanted to be round people who passionately shared ideas, taught, created and built the Bitcoin revolution?
Bitcoin doesn’t need any of us – even Michael Saylor. It is bigger than all of us. But Bitcoin is best served when we all move forward. For some, that means orange-pilling CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. For others, it means developing new, ground-breaking forms of technology. But for many of us, that means organizing a local meeting, helping friends and family understand what “sound money” is, or even something as simple as serving coffee and muffins.
What is your dream job with Bitcoin? What do you do to make it happen? And Mr. Saylor, if you hire, I’ll make a mean London fog.
This is a guest post by Boomer. Opinions expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of BTC Inc. or Bitcoin Magazine.
