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“They’d obviously detected that I had a virus on my computer, but didn’t realise it was deliberate. So I call the university IT helpline, and they send a kid, no older than me. He sits down at my computer and looks at it and says ‘boy you’ve really screwed this thing up’.<\/p>\n
“Then, right in front of me, he logs onto my website and downloads Malwarebytes.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t say anything, I stood behind him and watched him fix my computer with my software to get me back online. He left never knowing who I was, but to this day I love that moment.”<\/p>\n
By the time Marcin graduated with a degree in computer science in 2012, he had quietly grown Malwarebytes into a business earning a few million dollars a year. All without any of his lecturers having any idea what was taking up his time, and pushing his grades down.<\/p>\n
Today the company has an annual turnover of more than $126m, and millions of customers around the world.<\/p>\n
Born in Poland in 1989, Marcin moved to the US with his family when he was three, settling in Chicago.<\/p>\n
As a gaming-obsessed teenager, he’d accidentally got a virus when he was 14, and learned everything he needed to know about computer bugs from internet forums and a “For Dummies” book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n