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Wow, I can’t believe I didn’t know Mark Shuttleworth founded Thawte. I always knew him as the Ubuntu guy, but never knew where he earned his millions. > Shuttl
by heywire 8y ago
Wow, I can’t believe I didn’t know Mark Shuttleworth founded Thawte. I always knew him as the Ubuntu guy, but never knew where he earned his millions.
> Shuttleworth founded Thawte Consulting in 1995, a currently running company which specialized in digital certificates and Internet security. In December 1999, Thawte was acquired by VeriSign, earning Shuttleworth R3.5 billion (about US$575 (equivalent to $844.70 in 2017) million).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth