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With 537,343 views on Monday, 19 August 2024 our article of the day is Mike Lynch (businessman).

Michael Richard Lynch (born 16 June 1965) is a British-Irish technology entrepreneur, known as the co-founder of Autonomy Corporation and the founder of Invoke Capital. Lynch additionally became a co-founder, alongside Invoke Capital, of cybersecurity company Darktrace. He has also had various other roles, including in an advisory capacity.

Following a degree, PhD and post-doctoral research at Cambridge University, he applied his research in machine learning to set up software companies and become a major figure in Silicon Fen. The sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 led to accusations of fraud and resulted in civil litigation in the UK and Lynch's extradition to the US, where he went on trial in March 2024 and was found not guilty of all charges in June 2024.

He has been missing since 19 August 2024, after the Bayesian—one of the largest sailing yachts—capsized and sank off the coast of Sicily.

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:28 UTC on Tuesday, 20 August 2024.

For the full current version of the article, see Mike Lynch (businessman) on Wikipedia.

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20 Aug 2024