# 237. The extraordinary story of Britain’s first tech titan

An episode of [The Rest Is Money](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1703785141), 25 Dec 2025, 56 min.

Audio: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLT8070876991.mp3?updated=1766510075

Who was Mike Lynch and how did his tech companies make him a billionaire? How did he avoid prison in an American fraud trial when he’d only given himself a 0.4% chance of winning the case? Why did his tragic death spark conspiracy theories around the world? Katie Prescott, technology business editor at The Times, joins Robert and Steph to discuss the extraordinary life and death of a British tech billionaire, on whom she’s based her latest book: The Curious Case of Mike Lynch. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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