Probe into death of bitcoin firm’s CEO
Print Edition
A young American CEO who apparently committed suicide in Singapore was dealing in bitcoin, but was also struggling with other issues prior to her death, friends and colleagues said.
Autumn Radtke, chief executive of virtual currency exchange First Meta Pte Ltd, was found dead on February 26. Police said they were looking into her “unnatural” death, and “preliminary investigations showed no foul play is suspected.”
Neighbors said they thought Radtke jumped to her death from an apartment complex near her home.
Friends and colleagues said Radtke, 28, was wrestling with professional and personal pressures, not least running a startup that was struggling to gain traction.
“She had a phenomenal network of highly successful people around her, and here she is running this little exchange and it just isn’t taking off in the way anybody had hoped,” said Steve Beauregard, CEO and founder of GoCoin, a startup which provided bitcoin-related services to First Meta.
He rented a room in Radtke’s large Singapore home and was among the last people to see her alive.
Bitcoin is under scrutiny after Tokyo-based Mt Gox, once the world’s dominant exchange for the virtual currency, filed for bankruptcy in Japan last week, blaming hackers for the loss of 850,000 bitcoins worth more than US$550 million.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
