How fighting a computer bug turned into a vocation

FT Start-Up Stories

Jun 25, 201825:31Business

Marcin Kleczynski’s interest in computer software was sparked at the age of 14 when a battle to remove a virus from his home computer brought him into contact with the world of cyber geeks. He teamed up with some of them...

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