We're in the middle of an AI boom. Capital is abundant, expectations are high, and nearly every company is trying to position itself as a winner in the coming transformation. Amid all the excitement, a basic challenge remains: separating what exists today from what might exist tomorrow. Customers, employees, journalists, investors, and boards are all trying to answer the same question: what's real, what's aspirational, and what's simply marketing?That makes now an unusually good time to read Katie Prescott's The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life and Death of a Tech Billionaire.While the technologies are different, the book explores a timeless question: what happens when exceptionally smart people become committed not merely to success itself, but also to sustaining the aura of success?Published in 2025, the 464-page book tells the remarkable story of Mike Lynch, founder of Autonomy, once Britain's most successful software entrepreneur. Prescott, technology business…
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