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This week I met with a fantastic group of very young aspiring entrepreneurs from Ireland. All still in their teens! It warms my heart to see the next generations continuing to dream and to feel the impulse to build and to better their lives and the world.

Great to see Eoghan McCabe giving back to the next gen of Irish founders! Big kudos to Tom from Patch for organising this trip. He’s been a massive support to young Irish founders, always putting the community’s needs ahead of his own from the first day I met him Dogpatch Labs

Eoin is 💯 building a category defining business. Backed by some of the best such as Blossom Capital, Index Ventures & Accel his real secret power is being absolutely customer obsessed! Thanks for making time for us today Eoin Hinchy

The people have asked, so Luke has spoken.

Delighted to see Patrick Finlay & Mark Hughes launch Solidroad on Product Hunt 😸. The guys are such strong & diligent builders who are truly thinking big! Ian Browne & I loved working with them as part of NDRC. producthunt.com/posts/solidroa…

When Aimee-Louise Carton sold KeepAppy 2 yrs ago, she felt something was missing. A void came into her life. So after 15 years, she picked up painting again, and now 12-months later she’s exhibiting at Culture Night Dublin. Incredibly proud of her doing something so bold!

Great to see Malaika Judd from Dogpatch Labs take the studio SaaStock with Cosmin Pitigoi the CFO Flywire > talking all things finance & how the role is changing in startups.

Sales is broken. Revium is here to fix it 🚀

If you’re based in Ireland or care about the country, I highly recommend reading this. There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do something great here, but time is running out. We might already be too late.

Love throwing a party with our friends Cherry Ventures & Gloria Baeuerlein

💥 - these guys are just going from strength to strength. One of the fastest-growing consumer startups coming out of☘️?! cc / Ian Browne & Connor Murphy 🌁

Great AM Dogpatch Labs on Go-To-Market Readiness with Will Prendergast from Frontline Ventures, Sam Jacobs from Pavilion & John Ryan from Gigable So important as a founder not to hire sales people to generate demand.

Great to see an Irish startup & NDRC alum featured in FORTUNE today. @Dev_A11y is making moves. Making accessibility accessible to anyone. fortune.com/europe/2025/01…

Last week I over-indulged in tech podcasts & the X timeline so wrote this piece on the current state of discourse & it's reality for company building + investing. Timely with all the shouting & clout chasing around Deepseek, its a good reminder. Everyone is talking their book.

This fireside chat is absolute 🔥! Anthony & Luke not holding back and really giving the low down on fundraising & best international standards.

Dublin's not just pulling pints of Guinness these days (although, we still do that a lot 🤣). Excited to see what Sean & Jentic team are building - this infrastructure play is going to unlock a whole new generation of founders.

On my way to the Techstars demo day in London! Excited to meet the new cohort of startups & obviously see the ☘️ stars behind this cohort, Georgie Smithwick & Eoghan Also looking forward to catching up with our friend seedcamp, Balderton Capital & Entrée Capital

There’s ☘️ everywhere - g’wan will o’brien 🌊