Web Summit Portugal

pacelut

How is Web Summit going on this year? Has Cosgrave got cheap hotels? Free transport? Police escort? What else was on the list?

VinLieger

Not on till November I give him 2 years before his arrogance, price gouging and penny pinching pisses of Lisbon and he has to move again

For Forks Sake

Yeah, well done on managing to overrule a basic of economics Paddy (you gobsh1te) :http://www.newstalk.com/Lisbon-Hotel-prices-rocket-for-Web-Summit-2016

/sarc

Fr_Dougal

Pity the government couldn't sort their sh1t out and keep the Web Summit in Ireland. Massive loss to the country.

Specialun

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Pity the government couldn't sort their sh1t out and keep the Web Summit in Ireland. Massive loss to the country.

How is it a massive loss?

Seth Brundle

Oh oh oh wait.
*Gets popcorn*
OK, continue!

SEPT 23 1989

Specialun wrote: »

How is it a massive loss?

The company that supplies those water tanks with lights in them on the stage will feel the pinch

_Brian

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Pity the government couldn't sort their sh1t out and keep the Web Summit in Ireland. Massive loss to the country.

I'd say 99% of the country never knew it happened nor that it moved to Portugal. I'd say even more don't really care.

Red Kev

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Pity the government couldn't sort their sh1t out and keep the Web Summit in Ireland. Massive loss to the country.

You can't deal with a person like Paddy Cosgrave and his idiotic demands. Nobody could take him seriously after his antics last year. I've never heard more petulant crap from a business person anywhere, it's the kind of nonsense that the Kardashians would blush if they were associated with it.

The summit is a loss, but he isn't.

He owes this country a lot, we owe him nothing.

padd b1975

_Brian wrote: »

I'd say 99% of the country never knew it happened nor that it moved to Portugal. I'd say even more don't really care.

/Thread.

Larbre34

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Pity the government couldn't sort their sh1t out and keep the Web Summit in Ireland. Massive loss to the country.

The Government's sh1t? I think the agencies of the state in industry and enterprise have earned their credentials over many years with their great successes. They certainly dont need to prove anything to anyone by compromising themselves at the beck and call of a jumped up little sh1tehawk like Paddy Cosgrave.

I dont want websummit to fail as i feel many of the attendees can benefit from it, but i have a feeling Mr Cosgrave's arrogance will catch up with him by the end of the Lisbon event. From a few folk i know in the game, the soundings arent great.

Slydice

and YOU

only in Portugal

for THE Weekend!

VinLieger

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Pity the government couldn't sort their sh1t out and keep the Web Summit in Ireland. Massive loss to the country.

Hardly, it gets cosgrave out the country for a fair bit of time so I don't really see any negatives

Howard the Duck

Judging by the amount of emails they are sending out i think they probably aren't selling too many tickets.

I'm not downplaying websummit, but Manders Terrace Ltd, the company behind websummit is an SME that makes a lot less money than people might expect (the three directors shared a combined income of about 280k in 2014)

Cosgrave is not some Mark Zuckerberg figure who is regarded as some kind of genius. This is an event management company at the end of the day, I'm glad we haven't further degraded ourselves by pandering to their ridiculous requests of Garda escorts and government intervention on hotel prices.

suicide_circus

Ireland wasn't ready for a visionary like Paddy Cosgrave

helimachoptor

I went 3 times.

as said above its basically an event management company.

The biggest downfall i found was that all these start up were expecting investors to throw buckets of cash at them, and while it did in happen in some cases i dont think "web summit" was the holy grail Paddy made it out to be

andekwarhola

VinLieger wrote: »

Not on till November I give him 2 years before his arrogance, price gouging and penny pinching pisses of Lisbon and he has to move again

It'll end up being on Easter Island by 2025.

Hande hoche!

Hopefully they won't be charging twenty euro to get you a piri piri roll and bottle of water.

jmayo

Red Kev wrote: »

You can't deal with a person like Paddy Cosgrave and his idiotic demands. Nobody could take him seriously after his antics last year. I've never heard more petulant crap from a business person anywhere, it's the kind of nonsense that the Kardashians would blush if they were associated with it.

The summit is a loss, but he isn't.

He owes this country a lot, we owe him nothing.

Actually looking at his primadonna demanding attitude, self righteousness and self congratulatory demeanour I would have thought he would seek a job with the IOC where that type of shytology is the norm.

Santos L. Halper

suicide_circus wrote: »

Ireland wasn't ready for a visionary like Paddy Cosgrave

I hope you were being sarcastic.

pidgeoneyes

Web Summit: the Plowing Championships for hipsters.

diomed

We lost a Paddy to Rio, and a Paddy to Lisbon.
I hope Michaal Noonan takes account of the losses when framing his budget.

astrofool

pidgeoneyes wrote: »

Web Summit: the Plowing Championships for hipsters.

I think the hipsters are going to the ploughing these days, everything there is "artisanal" (the short word for artists disappearing up their own bum).

uck51js9zml2yt

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I'm not downplaying websummit, but Manders Terrace Ltd, the company behind websummit is an SME that makes a lot less money than people might expect (the three directors shared a combined income of about 280k in 2014)

Cosgrave is not some Mark Zuckerberg figure who is regarded as some kind of genius. This is an event management company at the end of the day, I'm glad we haven't further degraded ourselves by pandering to their ridiculous requests of Garda escorts and government intervention on hotel prices.

Of course we should have given him Garda escorts etc....just like they will in Portugal....not !

suicide_circus

Santos L. Halper wrote: »

I hope you were being sarcastic.

Genius is rarely understood in its own time

VinLieger

Lisbon hotel prices up 300% during summit

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/caveat-web-summit-different-city-same-old-expense-1.2776061

pacelut

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Hopefully they won't be charging twenty euro to get you a piri piri roll and bottle of water.

Forgot about the catering thing!

Robbo

andekwarhola wrote: »

It'll end up being on Easter Island by 2025.

"If you don't carve a path for my entourage through those giant stone head yokes, I'm taking this baby to Vanuata. I'm serious."

Red_Wake

Good to see the back of him.
Didn't a load of stories come out about him last year, of startups being expected to pay for the pub crawls of the millionaire investors?
Not to mention of the event itself being run by volunteers, while Paddy and the lads claim a cushy salary!

kjl

pacelut wrote: »

How is Web Summit going on this year? Has Cosgrave got cheap hotels? Free transport? Police escort? What else was on the list?

Internet!

pacelut

Red_Wake wrote: »

Good to see the back of him.
Didn't a load of stories come out about him last year, of startups being expected to pay for the pub crawls of the millionaire investors?
Not to mention of the event itself being run by volunteers, while Paddy and the lads claim a cushy salary!

Trinity College graduates volunteers only! The other graduates didn't deserve to work for free!

lawred2

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Pity the government couldn't sort their sh1t out and keep the Web Summit in Ireland. Massive loss to the country.

meh

lawred2

Howard the Duck wrote: »

Judging by the amount of emails they are sending out i think they probably aren't selling too many tickets.

aye

I've had about 5 last calls for early bird tickets

Seth Brundle

VinLieger wrote: »

Lisbon hotel prices up 300% during summit

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/caveat-web-summit-different-city-same-old-expense-1.2776061

That must be Irish media lying because didn't he say that Lisbon would be cheaper?

lawred2

VinLieger wrote: »

Lisbon hotel prices up 300% during summit

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/caveat-web-summit-different-city-same-old-expense-1.2776061

chuckle

hypocrisy of wanting government intervention in the hotel market and then standing over €20 a pop for a burger

VinLieger

kbannon wrote: »

That must be Irish media lying because didn't he say that Lisbon would be cheaper?

The hypocrisy of it all is most of the hotel rooms sold during its stint in dublin were booked by the summit and then sold on to attendees at an even further mark up. So Paddys real problem with it all was his percentage of the profiteering on the rooms was so small cus of what the hotels were charging him to begin with. You can bet if the hotels had reduced their prices none of that would have been passed onto attendees and would have just been pocketed by him

Dyr

VinLieger wrote: »

The hypocrisy of it all is most of the hotel rooms sold during its stint in dublin were booked by the summit and then sold on to attendees at an even further mark up. So Paddys real problem with it all was his percentage of the profiteering on the rooms was so small cus of what the hotels were charging him to begin with. You can bet if the hotels had reduced their prices none of that would have been passed onto attendees and would have just been pocketed by him

Thats pretty much the guys whole model

Demand everything for next to nothing or on the promise of free advertising then charge the punters through the hoop for it

lawred2

Bambi wrote: »

Thats pretty much the guys whole model

Demand everything for next to nothing or on the promise of free advertising then charge the punters through the hoop for it

the twerp was able to capitalise on the green jersey agenda for a while as well..

La_Gordy

Just got an email from them saying this :

Web Summit platinum ticket prices will increase from €4,950 to €24,995 at midnight this Friday.

25K?!

osarusan

La_Gordy wrote: »

Just got an email from them saying this :

Web Summit platinum ticket prices will increase from ?4,950 to ?24,995 at midnight this Friday.

25K?!

Is Martin Shkreli on board now?

keeponhurling

Just the ticket for €25k, plus of course flights and overpriced accomodation.
Roll up, roll up!

Blackjack

keeponhurling wrote: »

Just the ticket for ?25k, plus of course flights and overpriced accomodation.
Roll up, roll up!

does that include a burger and chips?