MicroStrategy Founder Explains How to Make Money With AI: Is He Right?

Michael Saylor has a simple message for young people entering an AI-heavy economy: learn the technology early, then use it to find opportunities others have not seen.

He also mentioned a trick called “finding the new S-curve.” The Strategy founder (formerly MicroStrategy) made the argument during a recent Diary of a CEO interview with Steven Bartlett. Don’t Try to Outwork AI Saylor believes AI will increasingly handle routine knowledge work.

For an 18-year-old deciding what to study, learning tasks AI can already perform may offer less long-term value. “You don’t want to learn how to do things the AI can do,” Saylor said.

His alternative: “What you want to do is learn how to ask the AI to do something that’s never been done before.” That could mean creating a product or using AI to make an existing service cheaper. He also stresses that people still need expertise in a particular field.