The piece below from today's IT on the Collison brothers from Limerick prompted me to look up their entries on wikipedia.
From Patrick Collison's Wiki page:
After attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States for a time Collison dropped out.[1] In 2007 he set up software company 'Shuppa' (a play on the Irish word 'siopa') in Limerick with his brother John Collison.[6] Enterprise Ireland did not allocate funding to the company, prompting a move to California after Silicon Valley's Y Combinator showed interest. Here, they merged with two Oxford graduates, Harjeet and Kulveer Taggar, and the company became Auctomatic.[6]
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Does anyone know if this is true? Looks like a major failure for E Ireland. It was obvious to anyone that these guys were gonna break through...
From Patrick Collison's Wiki page:
After attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States for a time Collison dropped out.[1] In 2007 he set up software company 'Shuppa' (a play on the Irish word 'siopa') in Limerick with his brother John Collison.[6] Enterprise Ireland did not allocate funding to the company, prompting a move to California after Silicon Valley's Y Combinator showed interest. Here, they merged with two Oxford graduates, Harjeet and Kulveer Taggar, and the company became Auctomatic.[6]
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Does anyone know if this is true? Looks like a major failure for E Ireland. It was obvious to anyone that these guys were gonna break through...