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| We are delighted by FASB's expeditious move to create more transparent reporting, and we are encouraged by the continuing maturity of the regulatory environment surrounding bitcoin and we hope these enhanced accounting rules will serve as a positive on-ramp for other corporates to adopt bitcoin as a treasury reserve |
| There's extraordinary opportunities to blend artificial intelligence with our traditional business intelligence customer base |
| And as Phong said earlier, we believe that the combination of our operating structure, bitcoin strategy, and focus on technology innovation provides a unique opportunity for shareholder value creation |
| Leverage provides us the opportunity to generate higher returns if price increases |
| And quarter-by-quarter and year-by-year, we're going to see many, many positive developments that bring bitcoin to many, many more investors and many more organizations, many more companies, many more countries, and increasingly bring utility to the world |
| We're very enthusiastic about that |
| The management team has demonstrated a track record of disciplined approach to navigate through volatile times in the bitcoin market and establish credibility in achieving our goal of generating more value for our shareholders |
| The strong growth in our subscription services revenue was driven by both existing customer migrations to the cloud and new customer wins |
| Our customer renewal rates continue to be among the highest we've ever experienced, and our subscription billings remain strong |
| And this is profoundly positive and auspicious for Bitcoin as an asset class |
| While the overall market benefited from the increase in Bitcoin prices, well, we believe our intelligent use of leverage and excess cash to acquire more bitcoin, as well as our equity capital market strategy contributed $2.4 billion of incremental value for our balance sheet, demonstrating our track record of generating value for our shareholders |
| Again, overall, 2023 was a tremendously successful year, and taking into account our purchases and appreciation of our holdings, we increased the value of our bitcoin holdings by 267% to $8 billion over the course of the year |
| I believe MicroStrategy is entering 2024 stronger than ever and will continue to provide a unique value proposition for our shareholders |
| We're very proud of this |
| 2023 was an extremely successful year for us where we generated approximately $5.8 billion of incremental value from both the increase in the price of bitcoin of our existing holdings, as well as through our strategic use of equity capital markets activities |
| In addition to raising debt, we have demonstrated a solid track record of issuing permanent equity capital in a manner that we believe has been accretive to our shareholders |
| I think we've demonstrated the track record of our ability to think through those complex ideas |
| We believe that the combination of our operating structure, bitcoin strategy, and focus on technology innovation provides a unique opportunity for value creation |
| Our ability to leverage cash from operations enables us to increase our bitcoin holdings in a manner that we believe is accretive to our shareholders |
| We've deployed these levers to increase our bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value |
| With the opportunity to take on more leverage in a prudent, risk-managed fashion, the value generated from our increasing bitcoin holdings would be expected to outperform even further if bitcoin prices continue to rise |
| MicroStrategy is the largest corporate holder of bitcoin in the world and we have remained committed to our bitcoin acquisition strategy with the highest conviction, with a consistent track record, long-term focus, and a strong risk managed approach to acquiring and holding more bitcoin on our balance sheet |
| Turning to our bitcoin strategy, we had an extremely successful Q4 adding more bitcoin to our holdings, acquiring 30,905 bitcoins in the quarter, the largest single quarter bitcoin holdings increase since Q4 of 2020 |
| It won't be like the first 15 years, but we believe it will be a healthy growth period presenting many, many opportunities for corporations such as ours as more and more institutional investors and retail investors become aware of bitcoin and as regulatory clarity spreads everywhere in the world |
| The nice thing about our situation right now is that, we have all these options and we believe we're structured very, very well to take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves in the bitcoin era of institutional adoption that we see over the coming 15 years |
| And there's a reason that we believe we can outperform other strategies and why we believe a commodity like bitcoin is a better long-term store of value than just buying a portfolio of stocks, because it isn't a cash derivative |
| This was a significant achievement to show the continued progress in our transition to stronger recurring revenues in the cloud |
| Besides more healthy recurring revenues, additional benefits of moving customers and prospects to cloud include more engaged and happy customers using our latest software, resulting in higher retention rates |
| Our innovative, first-to-market AI solution offers capabilities designed to deliver an exceptional user experience on trusted data, featuring out of the box resources that streamline adoption on our multi-cloud platform |
| Q4 was an important milestone for us, where for the first time in both Q4 and for the full year, our subscription services revenues were higher than our product license revenues |
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| Our fourth quarter operating results were mixed with a decline in year-over-year revenues, in part due to the ongoing revenue shift to cloud and the lingering macroeconomic headwinds impacting overall customer spend |
| Product license revenues were $18.4 million, which was down 33% year-over-year in Q4, and $75.4 million, down about 13% year-over-year for the full year |
| Total revenues for the fourth quarter were $124.5 million, down 6% year-over-year |
| For the full year, total revenues were $496.3 million, down slightly 1% year-over-year |
| That was even acknowledged by [Jerome Powell] (ph) in a 60 minutes interview this weekend, where he expressed concern |
| And that means that a big tech strategy becomes increasingly difficult |
| There are lots of tax problems and liabilities where there are lots of KYC problems, there are a lot of pricing problems, accounting problems, and you just dismiss it |
| However, as we transition our business to the cloud, we fully anticipate lower product license revenues as we migrate both existing and new customers to the cloud |
| As customers and prospects move to the cloud to empower their AI-driven digital transformations, we expect a decrease in product license revenues |
| It's worthwhile to note, people are, in the early days, they thought of bitcoin as currency and a medium of exchange, and that creates a lot of misunderstandings and a lot of inappropriate or irrelevant criticisms with the advent of these new ETPs from BlackRock and from Fidelity |
| Total non-GAAP expenses excluding bitcoin impairment were $108 million in the fourth quarter down 3% year-over-year |
| We reported a total non-GAAP operating loss in the fourth quarter of $23 million, of which, the loss on the bitcoin impairment was $39 million in the quarter |
| In fact, we've even shifted the point where now there's a lot of mainstream and even political lobbying to say revoke, staff accounting bulletin 121 that makes it difficult for banks to custody bitcoin |
| Past criticisms are becoming irrelevant |
| And then the skeptics, that thought, oh, it's too good to be true |
| So there's a lot of political pressure to normalize the asset, to embrace the asset, to allow companies to do business with this asset |
| It's difficult to really name another asset class |
| And in that first 15 years, it was largely unregulated retail asset misunderstood |
| And the skeptics, the ones that said, I get it, but it's too good to be true, and it's too threatening to the establishment, so it'll be banned |
| So while the revenue impact of AI directly may not be extremely significant in 2024, it could be, but we're not positive yet |
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