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Michael Saylor's book recommendations
Key facts
- Michael Saylor has recommended or discussed 3 books on podcasts, as of June 9, 2025.
- Michael Saylor has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of June 9, 2025.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of June 9, 2025.
- The 3 books Michael Saylor has mentioned in the most episodes, as of June 9, 2025: The Bitcoin Standard, Have Space Suit _ Will Travel Digital Graphic Novel and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Michael Saylor aired on June 9, 2025.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Michael Saylor appears on, in one place — not just one.
Michael Jerry Saylor is an American entrepreneur and billionaire business executive. He is the executive chairman and co-founder of Strategy Inc., formerly known as MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Appearing on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast and the Lex Fridman Podcast, Saylor discussed and recommended Saifedean Ammous's book The Bitcoin Standard, noting that reading it was what initially drew him into researching Bitcoin and exploring historical inflation rates as well as the expansion of the money supply. During his conversation on the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, Saylor also mentioned Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction novel Have Space Suit — Will Travel to illustrate the ambitions and inspirations of his youth. Furthermore, he referenced Thomas S. Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to explain the concept of paradigm shifts and how new paradigms are typically embraced by younger generations.
Books recommended by Michael Saylor
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The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous's "The Bitcoin Standard" offers a detailed exploration of the history of money and argues for the economic necessity of a hard, decentralized currency rooted in Austrian economic principles.
Recommended“and I started looking for the books and I read the Bitcoin standard and I I got quote unquote dragged down the rabbit hole”
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Have Space Suit _ Will Travel Digital Graphic Novel
Have Space Suit, Will Travel is a classic science fiction adventure novel by Robert A.
Discussed“One of the Well, the a famous book by Heinland is Have Space It Will Travel. And in the book, uh, uh, precocious youth builds a spaceship, gets picked up by, you know, bugeyed monsters or by space aliens, gallivance around the universe”
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S.
Discussed“So Thomas Cune in the structure of scientific revolution, he introduces this idea of the paradigm shift and what he notes is that when a new paradigm comes along, it's embraced by the youth.”
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Books by Michael Saylor
Appearances
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I wrote a book called the mobile wave. And in the mobile wave back I was 2012 that I published it 2012.”
“It's a phrase from Clint Eastwood's movie, "Unforgiven," where he says, "A man's gotta know his limitations."”
“I wrote about it in the book, "The Mobile Wave," and they catalyzed this entire mobile revolution because they have advanced and continue to advance...”