Katie Prescott

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250 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Jun

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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · The Rise and Fall of a Tech Titan - Katie Prescott · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

Lots of people who start businesses and get them to a certain stage and they get bought by U.S.

companies.

And Mike Lynch was really unusual to build this company and take it to the heights that he did.

And I think I hadn't quite realized, being perhaps a generation behind him, just how disliked he was in that process.

But, you know, I was astonished to speak to grown men and was talking about their trauma of working with him.

And they would cry.

And these are sort of senior figures who you would not expect to still be feeling upset about their experience so many decades on.

There's this very, very complex story around the saga of Autonomy, his business, being bought by Hewlett-Packard and the huge falling out from that.

And so many people got caught up in the pain of that transaction, either because they were interrogated by the FBI, pressure was put on them from both sides to say certain things or behave in a certain way.

And it's astonishing to me, decades on, how it's affected people.

Oh, hi.

Well, thanks so much for having me and thanks so much for your interest in the book.

I think wow is right.

That's how I felt when I was reading it.

So I'm a journalist at the Times of London covering tech and I started my beat there just before ChatGPT launched.

So you can imagine the last few years have been pretty intense.

And before that, I spent 10 years at the BBC as a business correspondent.

Um, so yeah, and, and I got interested in, in the story of Mike Lynch because I was covering his criminal trial out in California for the times.

And I was looking around for a book or, or sort of comprehensive documentary about his life.

And over here in Britain, he's a really big, big tech figure.

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