Michael Saylor
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And I take that public.
And if people want 3.5% with principal protection and low vol, they buy the gold credit.
And then I take the money.
I sell a billion of that.
It's 10x over collateralized.
Now I go buy a billion dollars of gold.
Now I've got $11 billion of gold, but I've only got $10 billion of common equity outstanding.
I created 10% amplification on the common equity.
The equity holders are going to outperform gold because maybe 5% is not that compelling.
Maybe they'll get to 6%.
And the credit investors, they're going to get the 3.5% in a dividend.
And if I just hold the gold, where's the dividend coming from?
Over time, you're going to either sell the capital asset or you're going to sell a derivative of the capital asset.
So in a world where the market values my company at a premium to the underlying assets, I just sell the equity and I remit the cash flow to the credit investors.
In a world where the market doesn't value the equity at a premium to gold, I sell some of the gold and I remit the cash flow to the credit investors.
So now let's do it with an S&P portfolio.
You think the S&P is going up 10% a year.
I buy $10 billion of S&P stocks.
I sell a billion dollars of S&P credit, structured credit.
I offer you 7% or 5%.