The new season of Bloomberg's Foundering podcast retraces the life and gruesome death of John McAfee. In the 1980s and ’90s, the McAfee name was synonymous with computer antivirus software, and he helped establish the modern cybersecurity industry. But afterward, his life took a strange and dark turn. He was accused of murder, an allegation he denied, and then went on the lam. He sought to reinvent himself as a cryptocurrency guru and as a candidate for US president. Reporter Jamie Tarabay interviews McAfee’s colleagues, acquaintances, investigators and family members to demystify lies he told throughout his life, reveal the secrets he kept and resolve questions surrounding his public and decades-long self-destruction.
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02/09/23 • 2 min
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Odd Lots - Introducing: Foundering - The John McAfee Story
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In the nine eighties and nineties. John McAfee was a Silicon Valley icon. Well great, um, we were supposed to have a meeting at eight this morning. Again, he said yeah, but I was hungover. His name was synonymous with computer anti virus software, so I said, would you mind if I came over to the lab and spent some time with you there to try to understand the technology better. And it took me all of fifteen minutes in the R and D lab to realize he
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