Inside the life of brilliant and eccentric Mike Lynch - The James Bond obsessive who became Britain's Bill Gates and took on the US legal system<br /><br />As a mathematician whose particular expertise was probability, Mike Lynch prided himself on defying the odds.<br /><br />The nerdy multi-millionaire entrepreneur – dubbed 'Britain's Bill Gates' – even named his superyacht after the 'Bayesian' statistical theory on which he built his software fame and fortune.<br /><br />He boasted that he created a software empire by ignoring conventional business wisdom – and in June he defied conventional legal wisdom that says you can't beat US federal prosecutors when he was acquitted on all counts in one of Silicon Valley's biggest-ever fraud trials.<br /><br />Yet surely even Lynch might have discounted the odds, just two months after being spared spending the rest of his life in a US prison, of dying when a freak Mediterranean 'tornado' sank his yacht.<br /><br />The 184ft Bayesian, named after the 18th century English clergyman and statistician Thomas Bayes, sank off the Sicily coast.<br /><br />https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13759289/Inside-life-brilliant-eccentric-Mike-Lynch.html<br />
