Education and Early Career
Michael Saylor was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1965. He attended high school in Fairborn, Ohio, where he graduated at the top of his class in 1983.
In 1987, Saylor received an S.B. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and in Science, Technology and Society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His thesis was a simulation of the effects of war, famine, and other disasters on different systems of government. While at MIT, Saylor took a system dynamics theory class which gave him the initial idea of modeling business with non-linear mathematics.
Following his graduation from MIT, Michael Saylor was employed by Federal Group, a management consulting firm. He then worked as a venture manager at Du Pont de Nemours and Company from 1988 to 1989. The time he spent creating computer simulations at MIT prepared him for his work at Du Pont, where he constructed models to simulate business interactions. Saylor built a simulation that predicted a 1990 recession in several of Du Pont’s business markets. This demonstrated his capabilities to Du Pont executives who then hired Saylor as an independent contractor.
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