{"id":79915,"date":"2026-04-08T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=79915"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:31:35","slug":"strategys-new-product-grew-faster-than-the-iphone-and-google-ads-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=79915","title":{"rendered":"Strategy&#8217;s New Product Grew Faster Than The iPhone And Google Ads Combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Strategy\u2019s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MSTR\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\">MSTR<\/a>) Stretch preferred stock grew from zero to $5 billion in seven months, faster than <strong>Apple\u2019s <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/AAPL\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"AAPL\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>) iPhone and <strong>Google <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/GOOGL\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"GOOGL\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/GOOGL\">GOOGL<\/a>) Ads, as the product pays an 11.5% yield tax-deferred with 80% retail participation.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Seven-Month Sprint<\/h3>\n<p>Strategy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1T6E7ktmNSg\">launched<\/a> Stretch at the end of July 2025. From that point to mid-March 2026, the product grew to $5 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s iPhone took about a year to reach $5 billion in cumulative revenue. Google Ads took about four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a pure product perspective, you could argue that Stretch is the fastest growing product in the history of the world,\u201d said <strong>Fong Lee<\/strong>, CEO of Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to ETFs, the gold ETF launched in the early 2000s took four to five years to reach $5 billion in assets under management.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <strong>Ethereum <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) ETF took closer to a year. Only <strong>BlackRock\u2019s IBIT <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"IBIT\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" ...><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51709025\/strategys-new-product-grew-faster-than-the-iphone-and-google-ads-combined?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Strategy's\" new product grew faster than the iphone and google ads combined>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy\u2019s (NASDAQ:MSTR) Stretch preferred stock grew from zero to $5 billion in seven months, faster than Apple\u2019s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Ads, as the product pays an 11.5% yield tax-deferred with 80% retail participation. The Seven-Month Sprint Strategy launched Stretch at the end of July 2025. From that point to mid-March 2026, the product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-79915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}