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Mike Lynch, ‘Britain’s Bill Gates,’ Confirmed Dead in Superyacht Wreck
Tech mogul and billionaire Mike Lynch's passing in the luxury superyacht wreck off the coast of Silcily comes only weeks after he was cleared of fraud by a jury in the US.
British software mogul Mike Lynch, 59, has died after a superyacht he was onboard sank off the coast of Sicily, where he was celebrating being acquitted of fraud by a jury in the US weeks earlier. Within a year, HP had written down the value of the purchase by $8.8 billion, alleging it had uncovered “serious accounting improprieties” and “outright misrepresentations.” In 2019, the US Department of Justice brought 17 counts against Lynch on the basis of those claims. In a statement, former Autonomy COO Andrew Kanter tells WIRED that Lynch "was the most brilliant mind and caring person I have ever known.” He adds, “There is simply no other UK technology entrepreneur of our generation who has had such an impact on so many people.
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