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San Francisco company Sendoso recently established its European headquarters in Dublin with the creation of 100 jobs. From the get-go the company said it intends to source Irish products as part of its corporate gifting catalogue and one of the first Irish businesses to transform its European scale is Rob Kearney-backed Snack Farm. I talk to Sendoso’s country manager in Ireland David Ryan, a seasoned tech executive who has masterminded entire global product rollouts for major brands like Electronic Arts’ various Star Wars games as well as building e-commerce systems for Walmart.

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A mover and shaker in the Irish start-up ecosystem, DC Cahalane drank the Kool-Aid, walked the miles and wears the t-shirt. What he doesn’t know about Irish start-ups isn’t worth knowing. Part of the Trustev growth journey that saw the company sell for $44m, he established Republic of Work in Cork and today leads Dogpatch Labs’ latest First Friday partnership series with Google, Hupbspot, Microsoft and Salesforce. He talks about the future of the ecosystem.

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Bank of Ireland head of Motor Sector Stephen Healy looks at the prospects for the sector in 2022 and answers key questions such as why are second-hand cars holding onto their residual values. He says 2022 will be a crucial year when it comes to electric vehicles and forecasts an eventual end to the supply chain issues that have slowed down new car deliveries. 

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I talk to Cork entrepreneur Pat Phelan co-founder of the rapidly growing SISU chain of wellness outlets which has just begun its expansion into the United States with outlets in New York, Miami and Texas not to mention a growing empire here in Ireland and the UK. Pat famously founded Cubic Telecom followed by Trustev which he sold for $44m. He talks about his plans to IPO SISU and grow the empire to 200 outlets worldwide.

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This year Dublin-born company DataSolutions will reach the €100m revenue milestone after 30 years in business. Founder and CEO Michael O’Hara talks about his tech predictions for 2022, the journey beyond Brexit and his ambitions for the company for the future. He also talks about the Techies Go Green movement of 100 Irish tech businesses focused on decarbonising their businesses.

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Corporate Governance Institute co-founder Anthony Quigley already had a long career in the tech industry after leaving Microsoft to become an entrepreneur. Through various failures and successes, he kept going and struck gold with the Digital Marketing Institute and Code Academy. Now 61, he and his co-founder who is aged 71, have just raised €2m for their latest venture The Corporate Governance Institute and are creating 20 new jobs. He talks about his life in entrepreneurship and why governance and accountability matter.

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Founded by Lisa Geoghegan in 2019, Sonalife is the first female-led Irish business to create community experiences in property developments. Already involved in managing community programmes in more than 2m square feet of real estate in Dublin, she talks about improving the connection between tenants and landlords and how the current generation of renters and home buyers value the experiential aspect of living and working in a development. She also talks about her plans to take the business global.

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Andrew Lynch co-founded the Huckletree empire with Gabriela Hersham, building it into a major hub for scaling tech companies in hyper growth sectors. He talks about Dublin’s future as a European Capital of tech, Huckletree’s development plans for the year ahead and the role of co-working spaces as we move towards a hybrid work future.

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Founded by three dentists, Spotlight Oral Care is now one of Ireland’s fastest-growing companies and recently raised €12m to go global. We talk to one of its co-founders Doctor Vanessa Creaven about how the Galway business is going from strength to strength.

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Sailing champion Laura Dillon heads Waterland Private Equity Investments in Ireland, which has just revealed a €2.5bn European fund. She tells ThinkBusiness about her focus on SMEs with growth potential.

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