Mike Lynch: the British technology sector’s gain

Mike Lynch's acrimonious split with troubled American tech giant HP has been put down to a clash of cultures. So what now lies ahead for Britain's entrepreneur par excellence?

Nobody was surprised when Autonomy founder Mike Lynch parted company with Hewlett-Packard (HP), says the FT. After pocketing £500m from the £7bn sale of his Cambridge software house, "industry watchers had been betting he would last less than a year".

Both sides are spinning furiously about what HP witheringly called Autonomy's "very disappointing" performance (see below). Lynch probably couldn't care less. As analyst Richard Holway of TechMarketView observes: "He's an entrepreneur par excellence, the type of person who says beggar the rules'."

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