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Software company MicroStrategy Inc MSTR is heavily invested in Bitcoin BTC/USD thanks to the bullish support of its co-founder and executive chairman, Michael Saylor . While Saylor's bullish Bitcoin bet has paid off for MicroStrategy shareholders, a 2012 interview recommending buying shares of Apple Inc AAPL could have returned slightly more to investors. What Happened: Saylor has been bullish on Bitcoin for many years.

He has also put his money — and MicroStrategy's money — where his mouth is. While investors who followed Saylor's bullish take and MicroStrategy first buying Bitcoin in 2020 have profited nicely, a newly resurfaced video shared by Swan co-founder Neil Jacobs shows Saylor making a bold prediction on Apple in 2012. See below.

What Saylor Said "If you ask me, Apple Computer is going to $2,000 a share. I'd be very, very long that company," Saylor said in the video . Apple went from being worth $3 billion 12 years ago to being worth $600 billion , thanks to its new devices like the iPhone and strong user base.

"Whoever is selling that stock must be a moron," Saylor said. The Bitcoin bull compared the iPhone to a Dell computer that you put under a desk and don't care if its hot or ugly, you just want it to be $400 or $500. Saylor said if you put a phone in your pocket, you care if its hot and what it looks like, giving Apple an advantage.

Saylor said each iPhone model improves speed, battery life and is lighter, appealing to consumers to bu.

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