It was a tragic, complicated end to a colorful, complicated life—a life still shrouded in layers of complexity.
When Mike Lynch, described at one time as Britain’s Bill Gates, passed away last week, it was a shocking turn of events that would have sounded like a plot twist in an HBO show if it hadn’t been starkly real. Lynch was originally among six people listed as missing in the aftermath of an accident that sank a superyacht, named the Bayesian, in the Mediterranean. Lynch’s 18-year old daughter also died in the accident.
