I never really cared for or about this Michael Saylor guy. As CEO of a big company, he made a gamble and it paid off. That's admirable, and great for his shareholders. However, I don't think he understands what Bitcoin is supposed to be about. He'd obviously be pleased if he could mold it into a tool that benefited himself first and foremost.

All we can do is hope that Bitcoin Core remains democratic and self-regulating enough to not cave to corporate interests as its going to be more tempting than ever in the upcoming years.

It is already too late to want to "control" bitcoin price no matter how much money one has, "influencing" the market for a short time is still a thing though. But newbies can still dream

In any case there are still people who are stuck in the denial phase not wanting to believe that bitcoin as the only successful decentralized global censorship resistant currency has been working find for over a decade and its value is still increasing to this day. When they see one unit of a currency is worth twenty thousand times more than one unit of US dollar they fall deeper in that denial not wanting to believe that this payment system is a success and will only continue to grow without needing any "deep pockets" just as it has been for the past decade...

Yet we still read from time to time about a billionaire or at least a multi-millionaire saying that they own Bitcoin and it's a good investment. Maybe Michael Saylor shouldn't speak for "all" billionaires - after all, they are people, and people can have different views. Some billionaires probably don't care about "supporting anarchists" as long as they get profit, and others might not believe that Bitcoin "supports anarchists", or that anarchism is a huge deal.

It's like if people refused to invest in the Internet, because there's darknet, or even just the fact that there's a lot of awful things on the clearnet, and no one can stop that. Everyone, including billionaires, agrees that the government shouldn't control the Internet like they do in China, so why should they have a radically different opinion on Bitcoin?

OP, the fact that you started this topic with that question, makes me encouraged to see that "NO", Michael Saylor will never influence the people in community that matter. He will be Bitcoin's new Roger Ver if he forces his own narrative on the Honey Badger.

I want to know how/what the Core developers, like gmaxwell, feel/think about the "Saylor-narrative".

The heroes of Bitcoin don't need exposure. But I don't see why Saylor should be painted as a villain. We're all happy when big buyers are all hot and heavy on Bitcoin, aren't we? Regular Joe's always going to be there, growing in stature, they can (try to) manipulate all they want but I don't think it's sinister.

Because many investors here just come because of encouragement of their friends and relatives that This is Good investment and may bring them Millions just buy and Hold or Buy then sell.
when Bitcoin becomes a Material for trading and not what satoshi designed this.
and you are right that once they did not get what they want or in worst case that they lose instead of gaining(because of their Panicking move as what newbie does) they will throw stones and blame the crypto market for the stupidity they did as investing in market that you don't really understand well.

If only We they ask the community first ,but it is not because when they enter in this market they come directly in exchange and buy as what they have told,But of course this s for Small investor..

A lot of people are criticizing or even insulting others who treat Bitcoin as a way to make money. And now it seems to me Michael Saylor is one of them but instead of criticizing him, a lot are actually promoting his statements as if the man is a real representative of what Bitcoin truly is. For me, Michael is just actually chasing dollars and he happens to spot Bitcoin as one of the easier ways to make it. And now he is marketing Bitcoin very hard because he wants the price to rise and rise no end and make himself even richer.

I personally think he can’t influence the crypto community in any significant way. A man does not own 5 million BTC that he can be significant as a person who can in some way affect anything, regardless of his opinions that have been changing since 2013. There are people who also have a lot more BTC in their possession (or who have had it), so they have failed to impose their ideas and mislead the community, and here I am thinking primarily of Faketoshi CW and Roger Ver & Co.

No matter how the story of Michael Saylor develops, I think it's too early to call him a hero or Judas - a man is simply an investor who has some opinions about Bitcoin, but does anyone think we should worry too much about that?

He does have some camera pointing at him when he speaks of his bitcoin investment. He is just a bullish investors but it happens to be a CEO of a big company that is why we noticed him this time. If it weren't for Raul Pal interview I wouldn't have heard of the guy. He is a businessman and likely just like any other guy who invested in BTC, he wants profit. 

I don't know why some think of Saylor as a hero. In fact Bitcoin never benefited from heroes.
See: Bitcoin Jesus.

The whole community matters more than one, and this person is obviously trying to promote his personal image more than anything else. Did great for his company with a huge bet.
He had a past with a huge pump and dump of the price share of microstrategy and was accused of fraud by the SEC too, but this doesn't actually matter.
Bitcoin wasn't ever about any one person. Satoshi left for this reason too because everything was concentrated around him. Did better for Bitcoin when the founder left, when Gavin Andresen left and when more that gain power will also leave. There is nobody that has a say on Bitcoin and I keep reading comments in bitcointalk by people that think they have the right to claim how Bitcoin will move, but they aren't doing justice for Bitcoin, only for themselves. Bitcoin is a currency among other things. Face it and move on. It is a lot of things and not just what someone and his friends want it to be.