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. ... see more 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 ... see more 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 meme claims that McAfee’s former CTO later became CrowdStrike’s CEO, juxtaposing his career history with a notorious McAfee Windows XP glitch that allegedly disrupted much of the internet. The punchline is the ironic implication that the person associated with one major cybersecurity failure later led the company involved in another widely criticized outage. It is shared as a sarcastic reaction to corporate irony, cybersecurity mishaps, and questionable executive accountability.

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