0001209191-16-091504.txt : 20160114 0001209191-16-091504.hdr.sgml : 20160114 20160114180903 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-16-091504 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20160108 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160114 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160114 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MICROSTRATEGY INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001050446 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372] IRS NUMBER: 510323571 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1850 TOWERS CRESCENT PLAZA CITY: TYSONS CORNER STATE: VA ZIP: 22182 BUSINESS PHONE: 7038488600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1850 TOWERS CRESCENT PLAZA CITY: TYSONS CORNER STATE: VA ZIP: 22182 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Tae Michael S CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001663476 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-24435 FILM NUMBER: 161343751 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED STREET 2: 1850 TOWERS CRESCENT PLAZA CITY: TYSONS CORNER STATE: VA ZIP: 22182 3 1 doc3.xml FORM 3 SUBMISSION X0206 3 2016-01-08 0 0001050446 MICROSTRATEGY INC MSTR 0001663476 Tae Michael S C/O MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED 1850 TOWERS CRESCENT PLAZA TYSONS CORNER VA 22182 0 1 0 0 SEVP, Worldwide Services Employee Stock Option (Right to buy) 201.25 2025-09-08 Class A Common Stock 40000 D This option vests as to 10,000 shares on September 8, 2016, and as to an additional 10,000 shares on each anniversary thereof until the option is vested in full. /s/ Michael S. Tae 2016-01-13 EX-24 2 attachment1.htm EX-24 DOCUMENT

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
each of W. Ming Shao and Olga E. Nejikovsky, signing singly, the undersigned's
true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or director of MicroStrategy Incorporated (the "Company"),
Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5
and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
and in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with, or the undersigned's liability under, Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of the date written below.


Signature: /s/  Michael S. Tae
Print Name:  Michael S. Tae
Print Date:  January 13, 2016