MicroStrategy reviews

Product leads, VIPs and the C-suite are all afraid of the CEO, who is demonstrative at best and unstable at his worst. Saylor will scream about one piece of functionality in a Monday meeting and then berate you for not making progress in the exact opposite direction by Thursday. With his totalitarian approach co-opted by other Executive leaders, anyone below Senior VP is marginalized to point of non-existence and ANYONE who disagrees with Saylor's tone (combative), approach (seat of the pants) or vision (I wrote a book so now we have to make it visionary) is fired.

I wanted to give more stars for the extremely talented middle managers and co workers who bring incredible experience and ideas to the table. In the right environment they would be successful, but the upper management at the highest level really has no idea how to nurture innovation with processes that make sense in today's technology industry. How can the company compete when the CEO has bi-weekly or weekly reviews that create panic and sap every resource to satisfy his needs, which are not the market's needs? The best people cannot succeed in this environment. The current climate is kind of like the pre-Baratheon Realm in GoT. The CEO is the Mad King - if someone truly challenges him and the way he runs the company, he disposes of them. The people that remain around him are yes men who are afraid to do things the right way for the very real threat of getting ousted. Unless one of the new product lines succeeds despite the CEO hampering true innovative and productive work and draining morale, his reign will crumble like the Targaryen's did, and the Baratheons and Starks of the market (Tableau, Qlik, etc.) will take over. Also this analogy makes MSTR seem better than it is - it never really was king of the BI market. And never will be as long as Saylor is there.