Racing driver, billionaire

This man is behind the CrowdStrike disaster

George Kurtz: His company CrowdStrike plunged the world into chaos.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/stock.adobe.com, CrowdStrike)

George Kurtz is a big name, especially in the American business world. The founder of CrowdStrike, the company responsible for the worldwide IT chaos, was listed in the Forbes list of the richest people with a fortune of 3.4 billion US dollars. Until the big crash came on Friday morning ...

"The problem was identified, isolated and a fix provided." George Kurtz tried to calm things down around 11 a.m. European time. But by then the world was already in turmoil. Airports were struggling with technical failures, as were hospitals and other public facilities. George Kurtz had his hands full trying to calm those affected on his personal day of horror. The founder of CrowdStrike is very familiar with setbacks.