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Mike Lynch, a British tech entrepreneur known for founding Autonomy and his legal battles.

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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire’

That is Katie Prescott, the technology business editor with The Times in London, author of the book, The Curious Case of Mike Lynch, The Improbable Life and Death of a Tech Billionaire.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire’

In my research reading about the dot-com boom, there were lots and lots of companies, and Lynch used to call them bring toothbrushes to my door dot-coms, that didn't really have that.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire’

What conclusions can we draw from the case of Mike Lynch, would you say?

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire’

Back in Mike Lynch's day, it was the dot-com became dot-bomb.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire’

In your book, you say that Lynch regarded himself as, quote, the smartest guy in the room with no duty of honesty to his intellectual inferiors.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire’

Mike Lynch was, as you say, super intelligent, but also something of a bully.

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire’

But we think that the Lynch estate is worth $500 million, which clearly wouldn't even clear that initial $700 million sum.