::Hi @[[User:PRRfan|PRRfan]] – I understand your point, but the lead should summarize why a person is notable overall, not focus on individual incidents. While the McAfee (2010) and CrowdStrike (2024) outages received media attention, Kurtz is primarily notable for co-founding CrowdStrike and his broader contributions to cybersecurity. All endpoint security companies occasionally experience outages, so these events reflect normal operational risk rather than defining his career. It is not stripping away everything but triumphs – it is putting that content where it belongs – in the Career section, where context, impact, and reactions can be fully explained. [[User:Chopcha|Chopcha]] ([[User talk:Chopcha|talk]]) 16:27, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
::Hi @[[User:PRRfan|PRRfan]] – I understand your point, but the lead should summarize why a person is notable overall, not focus on individual incidents. While the McAfee (2010) and CrowdStrike (2024) outages received media attention, Kurtz is primarily notable for co-founding CrowdStrike and his broader contributions to cybersecurity. All endpoint security companies occasionally experience outages, so these events reflect normal operational risk rather than defining his career. It is not stripping away everything but triumphs – it is putting that content where it belongs – in the Career section, where context, impact, and reactions can be fully explained. [[User:Chopcha|Chopcha]] ([[User talk:Chopcha|talk]]) 16:27, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
:::I hear you saying that Kurtz’s contributions to cybersecurity are the main reason he is notable, and so they are. That’s why the intro says so, and at long enough length that it cannot be said to “focus on individual incidents”. It is also true, and quite notably so, that few people have brought the modern world so close to a halt, and twice. You say, correctly, that all endpoint security companies experience outages, but the article takes great pains to assert that Kurtz’s CrowdStrike is no ordinary company. Indeed, it is so big and powerful that when it failed—or, if you prefer, when it found itself on the downside of normal operational risk—the world reeled. Finally, you argue that events—presumably, you mean ones that would complicate a simple summary—must not be mentioned until fuller explanation is possible; but if that were the case, intros would consist of little more than dates of birth and death. [[User:PRRfan|PRRfan]] ([[User talk:PRRfan|talk]]) 18:14, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
:::I hear you saying that Kurtz’s contributions to cybersecurity are the main reason he is notable, and so they are. That’s why the intro says so, and at long enough length that it cannot be said to “focus on individual incidents”. It is also true, and quite notably so, that few people have brought the modern world so close to a halt, and twice. You say, correctly, that all endpoint security companies experience outages, but the article takes great pains to assert that Kurtz’s CrowdStrike is no ordinary company. Indeed, it is so big and powerful that when it failed—or, if you prefer, when it found itself on the downside of normal operational risk—the world reeled. Finally, you argue that events—presumably, you mean ones that would complicate a simple summary—must not be mentioned until fuller explanation is possible; but if that were the case, intros would consist of little more than dates of birth and death. [[User:PRRfan|PRRfan]] ([[User talk:PRRfan|talk]]) 18:14, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
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I, the author of the initial draft of this page, have a COI: CrowdStrike is a client of mine. I’m happy to help with any feedback about how to ensure this article has NPOV and encyclopedic value. I want to ensure I am transparent throughout the process of getting this article reviewed for a move to mainspace. Many thanks. Mary Gaulke (talk) 19:43, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
George Kurtz 2 → George Kurtz – No idea where the ‘2’ in the title came from, for some reason I can’t move the page. L293D (☎ • ✎) 15:08, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
- Moved as requested. There were multiple drafts (#1 was declined), which is why the 2 ended up there. Dekimasuよ! 19:04, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi! As noted above, I’m a COI editor for CrowdStrike. Requesting some updates to this article:
- In infobox, updating “Occupation” from “President and CEO” to “Co-founder, President and CEO” (per article body).
- In first sentence of “CrowdStrike” section, update “executive in residence” to “entrepreneur in residence”.[1][2]
- In second paragraph of “CrowdStrike” section, update “focuses on” (in “The company also focuses on a ‘cloud-first’ model”) to “developed”, which better reflects the source and timeframe.
- At end of “CrowdStrike” section, adding: “In 2019, CrowdStrike’s $612 million initial public offering on the Nasdaq brought the company to a $6.6 billion valuation under Kurtz’s leadership.[3][4] In July 2020, an IDC report named CrowdStrike as the fastest-growing endpoint security software vendor.[5]“
- In “Personal life”, replacing “Audi R8 LMS GT4” with “Mercedes-AMG GT3[6]“.
Thank you for your time, your feedback, and your assistance. Mary Gaulke (talk) 20:41, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
Done. I have implemented most of the requested edits, except for the infobox. Adding co-founder (which is not an occupation, in comparison to President and CEO) sounds like self promotion, per WP:PROMO. Ferkijel (talk) 14:20, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
I don’t understand what the tables with the Daytona and Le Mans race results are doing in this article about Kurtz; there’s no indication of how he was involved. PRRfan (talk) 19:58, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Because Kurtz is in the news these days, I’m being BOLD and removing material of uncited relevance here. Delighted to restore it with proper citation of relevance. PRRfan (talk) 14:09, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- Not sure why the original source—Kurtz’s driverdatabase page—isn’t showing his results properly. I’ve put the official results sheets for each of the events below, which individually verify his participation and thus warrant the results’ restoration. Sorry that it’s not in a neater format with a single citation.
- Daytona:
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- Le Mans:
- 2023
- 2024 Meluiel (talk) 19:50, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
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In the last paragraph for the crowdstrike section under career, remove the space between “i” and “nformation” Ducky225 (talk) 20:39, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
The cited source indeed includes this claim, but can it actually be true? Assuming his birthdate of 1965 is correct; 4th graders in the USA are 9 or 10 years old; Commodore did not release anything beyond calculators until about 1977, as far as I can tell. So how could he be programming games on “his Commodore” in 1975, before even the PET was released in 1977? Unless he was held back in school 1 or 2 years and wasn’t actually in 4th grade until 1977, and happened to get a PET right when they came out? (October 1977).
Just thought the claim might warrant some scrutiny, and maybe a qualifier afterward, pointing out the potential discrepancy. I dunno. Just wondering.
Edit: Well, ok, apparently the KIM-1 was released in 1976, and _maybe_ George started Kindergarten or first grade a bit late, making the timeline plausible. I mean it had to be assembed by oneself, but, it was a Commodore computer …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1
Or perhaps he misremembered the exact year, and it was 5th instead of 4th grade when he started. Or maybe he did work on a Commodore a bit later, and started on something like the MITS Altair, which was available from 1974 (but apparently didn’t _really_ start selling until 1975) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800 … some other early micromputers were available from 1972-4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer
Of course, a thorough treatment might have to consider what dates George would have been in each year of school.
Hopefully this think-through may at least be of use to someone.
AaronW from ABQ (talk) 02:15, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
I’ve reverted @Chopcha‘s good-faith deletion of this passage: “Media noted that this was the second time Kurtz had been at the center of a global IT outage, after the 2010 incident at McAfee.[2][3]” The edit summary was “unnecessary details, content already appears on the page.” But that’s not quite accurate. To be sure, the 2010 outage is mentioned some 350 words earlier, but that’s not the same thing as explicitly noting that 1) the 2024 outage was the second such event in which he played a leading role and 2) this was widely noted in the media coverage. This is hardly WP:UNDUE; it is, in fact, vital context. PRRfan (talk) 16:25, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
Proposing the removal from the introduction “In 2024, CrowdStrike released a software update that disrupted millions of Microsoft Windows systems around the world, an event that has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology.” This statement is giving undue weight to a single technical incident rather than Kurtz’s career as a whole. The outage is covered in detail later in the page so removing it from the intro would improve neutrality of the article. Open to feedback. Chopcha (talk) 13:55, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
- I would propose the reverse: that the intro be changed to say Kurtz was involved in two of the world’s largest service disruptions. If anyone outside of business or cybersecurity has heard of him, it’s likely because of the intense and global media coverage of these two events, and it would be unbalanced and non-neutral to strip the intro of everything but his triumphs. PRRfan (talk) 14:37, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @PRRfan – I understand your point, but the lead should summarize why a person is notable overall, not focus on individual incidents. While the McAfee (2010) and CrowdStrike (2024) outages received media attention, Kurtz is primarily notable for co-founding CrowdStrike and his broader contributions to cybersecurity. All endpoint security companies occasionally experience outages, so these events reflect normal operational risk rather than defining his career. It is not stripping away everything but triumphs – it is putting that content where it belongs – in the Career section, where context, impact, and reactions can be fully explained. Chopcha (talk) 16:27, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
- I hear you saying that Kurtz’s contributions to cybersecurity are the main reason he is notable, and so they are. That’s why the intro says so, and at long enough length that it cannot be said to “focus on individual incidents”. It is also true, and quite notably so, that few people have brought the modern world so close to a halt, and twice. You say, correctly, that all endpoint security companies experience outages, but the article takes great pains to assert that Kurtz’s CrowdStrike is no ordinary company. Indeed, it is so big and powerful that when it failed—or, if you prefer, when it found itself on the downside of normal operational risk—the world reeled. Finally, you argue that events—presumably, you mean ones that would complicate a simple summary—must not be mentioned until fuller explanation is possible; but if that were the case, intros would consist of little more than dates of birth and death. PRRfan (talk) 18:14, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @PRRfan – I understand your point, but the lead should summarize why a person is notable overall, not focus on individual incidents. While the McAfee (2010) and CrowdStrike (2024) outages received media attention, Kurtz is primarily notable for co-founding CrowdStrike and his broader contributions to cybersecurity. All endpoint security companies occasionally experience outages, so these events reflect normal operational risk rather than defining his career. It is not stripping away everything but triumphs – it is putting that content where it belongs – in the Career section, where context, impact, and reactions can be fully explained. Chopcha (talk) 16:27, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
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