Technique (previously MicroStrategy) CEO Phong Le simply purchased $5,467 of his firm’s STRC most popular shares for 2 of his youngsters. The identical man earned over $37 million working the corporate over the previous three years, together with $13.7 million in whole government compensation throughout fiscal 2025 alone.
Not that it makes the determine any higher, however all three minor youngsters technically held STRC earlier than Might 22. Collectively, they maintain 186 STRC shares, value $18,600 mixed.
Alongside founder Michael Saylor, Le has spent the previous yr pitching STRC to retail buyers as a supposed competitor to high-yield financial institution accounts and cash markets. Le’s 11.5% dividend-paying, variable-rate inventory has a market cap of $10.4 billion — about four-fifths of which is owned by non-accredited, retail buyers.
Le disclosed his Might 22 familial purchases on a SEC Type 4 dated Might 26. He purchased 50 STRC shares at $99.41 for Minor Youngster 1, plus 5 shares at $99.37 for Minor Youngster 3.
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Fairly the present from the Technique CEO who made $37 million
Technique’s 2025 financials, filed with the SEC on April 28, listing Le’s 2025 whole compensation at $13,784,204. Particularly, his package deal breakdown was $1.1 million in wage, $1.235 million in bonus, $8.8 million in inventory awards, and $2.38 million in possibility awards.
In different phrases, Le’s present to his youngsters works out to lower than one one-hundredth of his 2025 inventory awards alone.
His 2024 whole was barely increased, $15.74 million. That was largely because of the increased closing worth of Technique’s widespread inventory, MSTR, in 2024 versus 2025. In 2023, Le obtained $8 million.
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Le has additionally purchased STRC for himself, though not in portions that may come anyplace near his stage of compensation, not to mention web value. On March 19, he purchased 2,509 STRC shares at $99.62, a $250,000 open-market commerce.
Trivial relative to his private fortune, he instructed podcaster Natalie Brunell that he needed to “expertise” STRC, likening its month-to-month dividends to a paycheck.
CEO whose widespread inventory misplaced 58% in 12 months
STRC is a perpetual most popular share that pays a month-to-month dividend and is quasi-pegged at $100, regardless that it has traded as little as $90.52 per share on the Nasdaq. In its non-public debut, Technique priced its public providing at $90 per share on July 24, 2025.
To encourage bids as much as $100 per share, Technique has hiked the month-to-month dividend charge seven occasions since launching STRC, from 9% to 11.5% in the present day.
Le personally owns 8,009 STRC, 6,000 Strife, 4,500 Stride, and 22,923 MSTR widespread shares.
STRC closed at $99.47 on Tuesday, just under its $100 par. The corporate’s MSTR widespread inventory has declined 11% over the previous six months and 58% over the previous 12 months.
The corporate’s large stockpile of bitcoin (BTC) had been acquired for a median $75,700 value foundation — barely above the present market — excluding $1 billion of prices whereas working that acquisition technique for the previous six years.
