Feel Free to Laugh at Hedge Fund, Autonomy’s CEO Told Executive

  • Hedge fund Lone Pine gathered inside information, Lynch says
  • CFO Hussain said he didn’t want to deal with the analysts

Mike Lynch arrives for a court hearing in London.

Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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Autonomy executives were struggling to deal with probing questions from analysts and hedge funds about the company’s finances when one official had enough.

"These guys are more annoying than gum on your shoe," Harald Collet complained in an email to his embattled boss Mike Lynch about hedge fund Lone Pine Capital.