Bitcoin billionaire Michael Saylor says he made $15 billion a year with ChatGPT

Speaking on The Diary of a CEO podcast on Aug. 6, Saylor said he turned to the AI chatbot after Strategy had exhausted more conventional ways of raising capital to buy more bitcoin.

The 61-year-old explained that the figure referred to the amount Strategy raised through a series of preferred stock offerings rather than his personal earnings.

He said ChatGPT helped develop the structure of the securities after the company's earlier reliance on convertible debt reached its limits. The products were designed to finance additional bitcoin purchases while appealing to income-focused investors, Fortune reported.

"You don't want to learn how to do things the AI can do," he said. "What you want to do is learn how to ask the AI to do something that's never been done before. If you want to create these incredible success things, you want to locate the magic opportunity."

Saylor, whose net worth is estimated at $4 billion by Forbes, founded software company MicroStrategy in 1989. The company, now known as Strategy, transformed itself into a bitcoin-focused business in 2020 and became the first publicly traded company to make the cryptocurrency a core treasury asset.

Strategy has since become the world's largest corporate bitcoin holder. It owns nearly 850,000 bitcoins worth more than $50 billion at current market prices.