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This is the way forward, nice work!

You're right. This 'strategy' question is a mis-understanding people still have with Bitcoin, I probably should have written about it. My TL;DR is:

Bitcoin is not a business, it doesn't require a staff to run, yet it is still viewed through the same lens as a business acquisition or strategic pivot. If executed right, a Bitcoin purchase changes absolutely nothing about the underlying business.

Bitcoin is nothing more than a tool for MicroStrategy to keep the money they've earned over the last 31 years.

It's actually worth $343 million now (he paid $175M earlier this year)

Here is a table of all publicly available Bitcoin holdings as of December 12th: https://www.kevinrooke.com/bitcoin

Correct, and being in orbit is not a requirement to be considered an astronaut. The threshold for being "in space" is 80km of altitude, a height that all Virgin Galactic customer flights will pass.

Also, sources are updated in the article. Thanks for mentioning the lack of links.

Yup, good point. It's not possible to extract AirPods from Apple and still have them be as successful. But it's illuminating to isolate the business against a backdrop of other top tech companies. It's kind of like Apple spawned Silicon Valley's hottest new tech company in 2016.

Correct, these are all estimates. And the sales split is unclear, but both Airpods 2 and Airpods Pro have the benefit of launching before the holidays. They got a disproportionate number of sales from those 2 months. Even if everyone went with the $150 version (which is impossible), Airpods revenue would still be $9 billion at 60 million units. The point still stands though, Apple is making a killing off Airpods. Whether the exact number is $9 billion or $15 billion isn't as important.