Strategy $1.44B Raise Helped Address FUD, Says CEO

Technique CEO Phong Le stated a part of the rationale for establishing a $1.44 billion USD reserve was to alleviate investor considerations over the corporate’s well being amid a Bitcoin stoop. 

“We’re very a lot are part of the crypto ecosystem and Bitcoin ecosystem. Which is why we determined a few weeks in the past to begin elevating capital and placing US {dollars} on our steadiness sheet to eliminate this FUD,” said Le throughout CNBC’s Energy Lunch on Friday.

This afternoon, Phong Le, CEO of @Strategy, joined @CNBC @PowerLunch to debate how $MSTR strikes with bitcoin, how our USD reserve addresses latest FUD, the shifting Overton Window, key volatility drivers, and why bitcoin’s long-term outlook stays robust. pic.twitter.com/1t5hsfov0m

— Technique (@Technique) December 5, 2025

On Monday, Technique introduced the $1.44 billion US dollar reserve, funded by way of a inventory sale. The reserve is meant to take care of an quantity adequate to cowl no less than 12 months of dividends, and can ultimately broaden to cowl a runway of 24 months, the agency stated.

Technique’s Phong Le says there was dividend ‘FUD’

The brand new elevate got here amid considerations over whether or not Strategy may proceed to service its money owed and dividend cost obligations ought to the inventory value fall too far.

“And it’s actually this FUD,” Le stated on Friday. 

“We weren’t going to have a difficulty to have the ability to pay our dividends, and we weren’t possible going to need to faucet into promoting our Bitcoin, however… There was FUD that was put on the market that we wouldn’t be capable of meet our dividend obligations, which causes folks to pile into a brief Bitcoin wager,” he stated.