What Sank the Tech Tycoon’s ‘Unsinkable’ Yacht?
www.nytimes.com
A Times investigation has found that an unusually tall mast, and the design changes it required, made a superyacht owned by a British tech mogul vulnerable to capsizing.
  • jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish
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    4 months ago

    His Wikipedia article is quite a ride. Apparently he and a Stephen Chamberlain were recently found innocent for a bunch of fraud charges. They boil down to inflating the value of a SW company he sold to Hewlett-Packart. They died within a day of each other in unrelated accidents. Must be rough.

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
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      4 months ago

      On one hand, if inflating the value of the startup you’re offloading onto a tech giant is a crime we should put half of Silicon Valley in prison. On the other hand, maybe we should put half of the Valley in prison.