Katie Prescott

'They told me I was born without fingerprints,' Lynch said with a wry smile. 'Don't you think I'd make a great criminal?' Mike Lynch's death was a tragic end to an extraordinary life. Dubbed Britain's Bill Gates, he rose from humble beginnings to found an empire worth billions, only for it to collapse in acrimony. A maverick outsider who became...

Mike Lynch was a maverick outsider in the British business world. From humble beginnings, Lynch rose to become one of the UK’s richest men, selling his home-grown enterprise software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for over £11bn in 2011. The sale triggered one of the biggest fraud cases in Silicon Valley history, as HP accused him of cooking the company’s books....

Mike Lynch was a maverick outsider in the British business world. From humble beginnings, Lynch rose to become one of the UK’s richest men, selling his home-grown enterprise software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for over £11bn in 2011. The sale triggered one of the biggest fraud cases in Silicon Valley history, as HP accused him of cooking the company’s books....