John McAfee Net Worth: Early Life, Career & Legal issue

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Businessman & Cybersecurity Legend John McAfee's net worth is only $4 million

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$4 M

The $25m Colorado flight club Sky Gypsies Now just $5.7m 

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$5.7 M

John David McAfee is a British-American technology programmer and businessman and the Founder of MacAfee Computer security company.

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DOB: 18th Sept 1945 RIP: 23rd June 2021 (Reportedly by suicide)

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In 1968 Study a Ph.D. in mathematics at Northeast Louisiana State College.

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In 1960 he works for the Coded punch-card systems.

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After He worked At NASA as a programmer (1968 and 1970)  

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Later he joins with Xerox, Univac, and Lockhead the USA's Biggest Internet Company

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In 1987 he founded the McAfee Associates IT company

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Which is a high-end antivirus program that detects malware in real-time and protects your devices from internet dangers.

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John McAfee resigned from the McAfee CEO position in 1994. 

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In early 2010, Intel acquired MacAfee at  $7.68 billion, and later in 2104, Intel Security sold $14 billion to Advent International and Permira.

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And John McAfee's net worth was $100 million, however, he lost a large portion of the 2008 global Markets crisis. 

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In 2000 he bought 290 acres in Colorado to build a flight Club called Sky Gypsies. 

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In 2010 He has become an outspoken supporter of Bitcoin.

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On October 3, 2020, he was arrested at Barcelona airport, and charged with tax evasion in Tennessee and cryptocurrency fraud. 

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1 week before his death, He tweets that the “US govt believes I have hidden Crypto”.

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On the 23rd of June 2021, the Spanish Police declared he had died in the Centre Penitenciari Brians 2 prison cell in Barcelona.

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On 27th Jul 2022, Netflix released a documentary based on John McAfee's life and business.

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