Meet the tycoon hunting down the world’s hackers—and fending off a Trump Ukraine conspiracy theory:
much about CrowdStrike, and George Kurtz, the cybersecurity firm’s cofounder, was perfectly happy with that. This all changed in September when a redacted transcript of President Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky became public.
Kurtz, who grew up in Parsippany, New Jersey, didn’t begin life with great wealth. The younger of two siblings, Kurtz was seven years old when his father passed away from a stroke. For a time, the family lived off his dad’s life insurance payout, but in the seventh grade, Kurtz took his first job as a paper boy for the Newark. “The paper was $1.25 a week, so when you got $1.50, you got a quarter tip,” Kurtz says. “That was a big deal.
He quickly got to the top of McAfee, becoming executive vice president and chief technology officer by 2009. And he got the idea for CrowdStrike’s simpler, faster, cloud-based technology from watching a guy seated next to him on a flight in 2010 spend a good 15 minutes scanning his laptop with McAfee. “The guy was talking to the flight attendant, he was reading his newspaper, and he’s doing all these things while the software is grinding away and I’m just sitting there going, oh my God.
“There were folks at the time in the Department of Homeland Security and in the private sector who were saying it doesn’t matter who the threat actor is, you just have to protect yourself against everything and everyone at all times,” says Steve Chabinsky, CrowdStrike’s former general counsel and FBI’s former top cyber lawyer. “George knew about the importance of attribution, which may sound logical enough, but no one was talking that way.
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