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John McAfee Net Worth: How Rich was the McAfee Software Founder?

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June 24, 2021

John McAfee was a British-American computer programmer, technology entrepreneur, and perennial political candidate. He is best known as a founder of the software company “McAfee Associates”, which was purchased by Intel for $7.7 billion in 2011. John McAfee net worth at the time of his death was reported to be around $4 million.

John McAfee committed suicide in Barcelona prison on June 23, 2021, after the Spanish high court authorized him to get extradited to the United States on tax evasion charges.

Full Name	John David McAfee
Birth Date	September 18, 1945
Birth Place	Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England
Profession	Technology Entrepreneur
Wife	Janice Dyson
Net Worth	$4 million
Died	June 23, 2021

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Early life

John McAfee was born on 18th September 1945 in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England. He was born to an American father and a British mother. John’s father was an abusive alcoholic, who killed himself with a gun when he was 15.

Regarding his study, he joined Roanoke College, from where he earned a graduate degree in mathematics in 1967. In 2008, he received an honorary Sc. D. degree from the college.

John started off his career working as a programmer at NASA’s Institute for Space Studies in 1968. There, he served for two years from 1968 to 1970. His next workstation came as a software designer at Univac. He also worked as an operating system architect at Xerox. In the 1980s, he started developing software that could combat viruses after he joined Lockheed.

John McAfee Net Worth & Career

John founded his own anti-computer virus company in 1987, which he named McAfee Associates. After two years the company went public in 1994, where he sold his remaining stake, and at that time, he didn’t have any further involvement in companies operations. In August 2010, the company was acquired by Intel. Later, McAfee-related products were marketed as Intel Security in January 2014.

McAfee got involved in other business ventures after he parted ways with McAfee Associates. He founded the Tribal Voice, which developed the instant messaging platform called PowWow. In February 2010, he started a new company named QuorumEx, which produced herbal antibiotics to interrupt quorum sensing in bacteria.

John founded another company named Future Tense Central in 2013, which produced a secure computer net worth device, D-Central. He made an announcement of an application for smartphones called Cognizant, which was renamed DCentral 1 in April 2014. Around January 2016, he started working as the chief evangelist for the security startup, Everykey.

In March 2016, he was appointed as the new CEO of MGT Capital Investments. The company initially moved its focus from social gaming to cybersecurity. John soon turned the investment company into mining of bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies. He believed that dealing with blockchains was important for cybersecurity. He stepped down as CEO of MGT in August 2017. After a year in August 2018, he was appointed as a CEO of a cryptocurrency company, Luxcore.

John McAfee Personal Life

John McAfee was married three times. He was first married to one of his students. Then, he tied the knot to Judy McAfee, who helped him to build the company, McAfee Associates in 1987. He separated with Judy in 2002. Then in 2013, he married a prostitute, Janice Dyson. Dyson is 37 years junior to John, Despite the big age gap, both started their love relationship, and eventually tied the knot in 2013.

McAfee was recently found dead in Barcelona prison on June 23, 2021, According to lawyers, he committed suicide after the Spanish National Court extradited him to U. S. on criminal charges that were filed in Tennessee.

Earlier in March 2021, McAfee was charged over a $13 million cryptocurrency scam, and on October 3 last year, he was arrested at El Prat airport in Spain, where he was about to fly to Turkey. McAfee was reportedly evading taxes even after making income from promoting cryptocurrencies.