https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/12/07/unitedhealthcare-ceo-murder-how-silicon-valley-protects-its-ceos/

Disgruntled influencer Nasim Aghdam burst onto a courtyard at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno in 2018 and shot three people before killing herself. A Virginia woman obsessed with Apple CEO Tim Cook drove across the country and showed up outside Cook’s Palo Alto condo in 2021 after sending him photos of a loaded pistol. Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe, was kidnapped by two men with guns when he got to work in Mountain View in 1992.

In the wake of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, those threats and acts of violence targeting the Silicon Valley technology industry and its leaders highlight the dangers that have forced tech companies to spend whopping sums to prevent their CEOs and other high-profile employees from being targeted.