Entrepreneurial Career
In the late 1980s Lynch formed Lynett Systems Ltd, producing designs and audio products for the music recording industry including the first ever sampler for the Atari ST, the Lynex, which was followed by the ADAS sampler for Atari, Mac & PC. This led to the offshoot D2D Systems which produced a software-only hard disk recording system for the Atari Falcon.
In 1991 he set up Cambridge Neurodynamics, which specialized in computer-based finger print recognition.
In 1996 Lynch co-founded Autonomy Corporation. and he served Autonomy as CEO. During this time Autonomy acquired Dremedia, Virage ($13m), Verity ($321), Zantaz ($375m) and Interwoven ($606m).
In October 2011 Autonomy was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $11Bn,.
In May 2012, HP fired Mike Lynch.
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