It’s just like the gold rush right now,” Cardone told Bitcoin.com in an interview. “Any time I feel all this rush moving in, the hair on the back of my neck goes up.”

Gary Cardone, Grant’s identical twin and a known bitcoin advocate, had arranged the initial meeting with Saylor in January 2025. Afterwards, the Cardones wasted no time and hashed out a plan to immediately jump onto the bitcoin treasury bandwagon, but Grant didn’t want to throw all caution to the wind. “I’m a very conservative investor,” Cardone explained.