The tragedy of Mike Lynch and the sunken yacht
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Five bodies were found yesterday inside a shipwrecked yacht in the search for British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and fellow missing passengers. Just hours before the sinking, the party had been celebrating a spectacular legal victory - so what led to this moment?
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill, with square wheels! |
| 0:07.0 | But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business. |
| 0:15.0 | So you can stay one step ahead. |
| 0:17.0 | Soon it'll feel more like free-wheeling downhill. |
| 0:20.0 | Wuho! |
| 0:21.0 | On a tandem! |
| 0:22.0 | Alright, mate! With a mass sir on the back. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh that's nice. |
| 0:26.0 | Search zero with an ex because healthy business is beautiful business. |
| 0:30.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:36.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:39.5 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:43.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:46.3 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:50.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:56.1 | 2023. VP. Manveen Rana. I've led an incredible life in that, |
| 1:15.0 | I've led an incredible life in that, |
| 1:20.0 | and you know, something you reflect on when you're in the situation I am. |
| 1:24.0 | Before I was extra I had to say goodbye to everything and everyone, |
| 1:28.0 | because I didn't know if I'd ever be coming back. |
| 1:30.0 | Last month, in his first interview after being acquitted of criminal charges that could have seen him die in prison, |
| 1:39.0 | the British tech tycoon Mike Lynch spoke to Danny Foultson on the Times Podcast, Danny in the Valley. |
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