How it is a man who walked into greatness is suddenly the most-wanted man in Belize? Mental accounting of your own money is a sure-fire way you will spend yourself into debt. Many people wonder if it’s the mesmerizing thought of being filthy rich or the thought the money will never run out. But McAfee Antivirus founder John McAfee is about to find out as soon as authorities capture him that his actions have consequences.
John McAfee is a victim of himself. A frivolous spender for things he really didn’t need to live a comfortable life. John McAfee may have gotten his start early on in England, but what he learned in America has powered his already hungriness for something more.
After spending some years jumping around different companies in the technology world, Defence Aerospace leaders Lockheed Martin gave McAfee the tools to create his own software after he created software for them. McAfee Antivirus the direct result of the intellectual property of Lockheed Martin first hit the market in the late eighties prompting users to get a free download of his product built the stairway to success.
Users after a given time were able to purchase extended use time licenses, which resulted in a big income change for John McAfee. So much so, the money was used to buy a new building since he’d been working out of his home. Changes here meant more money to spend, more things to own, more toys to buy and more people to hire to create his software.
John McAfee was drawn into the lime light, fame and fortune at his feet in less and five years. He was on top of the world. With new-found money, John seemed to be looking for the playboy lifestyle. A lifestyle built on parties, cars, people, houses and properties.
McAfee became absorbed in the idea of making serums from forest and jungle plants. He had a need to buy weapons to protect him and suddenly the sane John McAfee disappeared into money hungry mongrel. Was this sudden change of events linked to frivolous spending and unwise purchases? Was he fleeing America because he was investing into a drug ring?
After liquidating his American properties, John McAfee fled to his new adopted country of Belize. He was found recently with a younger woman, old enough to be with him, but was this the image John McAfee wanted the world to know, a womanizer and a frantic spender? Only time will tell us how bad John McAfee’s life has gone corrupt.
However, one thing that can’t be argued is the impact that his personal life decisions have made on the company he founded and the products sold today. McAfee Antivirus software, like every other product in this competitive industry is based solely on the Trust that consumers have in the product, and more importantly – the people who created it originally. And based on the life style of John McAfee as being reported today, the trust factor that McAfee Antivirus once had seems to be fading into the sunset.
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