Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, one of six people missing from a sunken yacht off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon Valley debacle that had tarnished his legacy as an icon of British ingenuity.

Lynch, 59, struck gold when he sold Autonomy, a software maker he founded in 1996, to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion in 2011. But the deal quickly turned into an albatross for him after he was accused of cooking the books to make the sale and fired by HP’s then-CEO Meg Whitman.

The 59-year-old, one of six people missing from a sunken yacht off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon Valley debacle.{ai:summary}<p>Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, missing from a sunken yacht off Sicily, was trying to shake off the ghost of a Silicon Valley scandal. Once a celebrated figure for his $11 billion sale of Autonomy, he found himself ensnared in accusations of fraud, turning triumph into tragedy.</p><p>Now, like shadows below the waves, his legacy hangs in the balance. #crime</p>

What we know about Mike Lynch, the British tech tycoon missing from a sunken yacht in Sicily

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