McAfee CTO Becomes CrowdStrike CEO

For those who don't remember, in 2010, McAfee had a colossal glitch with Windows XP that took down a good part of the internet. The man who was McAfee's CTO at that time is now the CEO of Crowdstrike. The McAfee incident cost the company so much they ended up selling to Intel. President / CEO & Founder CrowdStrike Jan 2012 - Present · 12 yrs 7 mos California Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of CrowdStrike, a cutting-edge security technology company focused creating the worlds leading Next Generation endpoint Platform (Falcon) delivered from the Cloud. Executive in Residence Warburg Pincus Nov 2011 – Jan 2012 · 3 mos California Worked to assemble a world-class team that later became CrowdStrike. Wrote the original business plan and raised one of the largest series "A" rounds in the security industry. McAfee 4 yrs 10 mos WW Chief Technology Officer & EVP Oct 2009 - Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo Santa Clara, CA Responsible for the creation of the Office of the CTO and driving the integrated security architectures and platforms of this ~$3B product business that had propelled McAfee into a leadership position in digit... SVP/GM Risk and Compliance BU Jan 2008 - Oct 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos santa clara, CA Responsible for P&L and Go-To-Market Strategy for the Risk and Compliance Business Unit (BU), which became the Corporate Security BU. (~$1.5B annual revenue stream for McAfee). Responsibilities included busi... SVP, Enterprise 2007 · 1 yr Santa Clara, CA Led the enterprise sales segment for McAfee, a $1B segment focused on the largest customers of McAfee products.

The meme shows a social media post claiming that the former McAfee CTO became the CEO of CrowdStrike, alongside a career-history screenshot connecting the two companies. The joke is a darkly ironic implication that the person associated with McAfee’s disastrous Windows XP glitch later led CrowdStrike, whose 2024 software outage caused widespread disruption. It is shared as a sarcastic reaction to corporate failure, irony, or the idea that history repeats itself.

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