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

Yeah, I don't think he harbored resentment, but I think he realized that the world was not automatically going to work for him in the way that it did for others.

You know, coming up through the British private school system, going through Cambridge, he would have been surrounded by a lot of people who

perhaps were quite entitled and saw that they had a certain path in life.

And I don't think he took anything for granted and he thought he had to fight for everything.

And so I suspect that contributed a lot to his behavior towards other people.

You know, it was a kind of dog-eat-dog world, every man for himself.

I do.

Some of it I can't say, I'm afraid.

I'll tell you all fair.

I think it was his treatment of people.

You know, so in Britain, as you know, we do not have many massive tech CEOs.

We've got lots of people who start businesses and get them to a certain stage and they get bought by US companies.

Like think about Demis Hassabis, the boss of Google Demind.

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.

And so, and this isn't in the book, but I was astonished to speak to grown men in the aftermath of this book being published who reached out to me and were 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.

And I hope people will read the book and sort of try and understand the story a bit more.

But 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.

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