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...phone call from Scholastic. They wanted to know if I had time to do a cover illustration for a book about this boy who had magical powers. At that point I was really busy with other work, and I said I didn't have time. [My contact, David Saylor] really wanted me to do it, and asked if I would reconsider if he sent me the story. I read it, and I really liked it, so I made sure to make room for it in my schedule. The rest is history. I'm glad...
...worst in history for information technology, with sales falling 2.3% after averaging a 12% annual growth rate over the past 20 years. Data-mining companies have been among the hardest hit in recent years: MicroStrategy, based in McLean, Va., rode the near messianic predictions of founder and CEO Michael Saylor from a market capitalization of $1 billion to more than $20 billion and back again in less than 18 months...
Take, for example, the $100 million that MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor vowed to donate last year to endow a foundation that would create the world's premier online university. That was shortly before the software company stunned Wall Street by restating its revenues for the previous two years--a shock that caused the company's stock to plunge more than 60% in a single day. Throw in the tech sell-off, and last week MicroStrategy shares that had traded for more than $225 a year ago closed at $2.88. Saylor's personal holdings, which had stood at $9.9 billion...
Neither the foundation nor the university nor the $100 million grant are anywhere to be seen, but Saylor insists he has not given up. He says he plans to put some lectures online by year's end and hopes to have the rest of the university up and running within a decade, assuming the stock price cooperates...
...MICHAEL SAYLOR, 35 Few rising stars have fallen to earth--and then started to rise again--with greater speed than cocky, outspoken Michael Saylor, co-creator of MicroStrategy, the multibillion-dollar database powerhouse he founded in 1989 to help companies manage their storehouses of computerized information. Last March Saylor, as CEO, admitted that his company had unintentionally misstated its earnings several years in a row and had actually lost money. Wall Street's reaction was swift: the stock dropped from a high of $313 to a low of $17.93 in a matter of days. But now Saylor is bounding back...