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Web Summit quits Dublin

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  • #992
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Bambi wrote: »
    One more day and the nightmare will be over.

    I would bet the Web Summit organisers are thinking the exact same thing!!


  • #993
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Be like the banishment of witches from medieval villages.

    Don't think the witches got to trouser a load of cash before they were sent packing


  • #994
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,341 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    mzungu wrote: »
    I would bet the Web Summit organisers are thinking the exact same thing!!

    Paddy will be on The Late Late on Friday night!


  • #995
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    Paddy will be on The Late Late on Friday night!

    And there is one for everybody in the audience,get your wallets out folks


  • #996
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,500 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    Paddy will be on The Late Late on Friday night!

    Unfortunately Tubridy can't do a half decent interview....bring in Sharon!!

    We should do a Web Summit / Paddy Cosgrave bingo:

    "we didn't want a penny"
    "unfair criticism"
    "we never wanted to go to Lisbon"
    etc


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  • #997
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Hope paddy isnt mugged by some swarthy gaucho on the utopian streets of lisbon.

    This really is a case of a man believing his own hype and the results are cringeworthy.


  • #998
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    Paddy will be on The Late Late on Friday night!

    The start of his rehabilitation to the Irish public! Mind you, it would be great TV if they trotted out Richard Bruton for a head to head.


  • #999
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    mzungu wrote: »
    it would be great TV if they trotted out Richard Bruton for a head to head.

    Or just switch Sharon Ní Bheoláin for Ryan Tubridy at the last minute:

    "Stand me up on live TV would ye? Head on ye like a bursted matress, ye bleedin sap ye"


  • #1000
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    It's a bit cringe worthy, isn't it? I mean, it was even a cringe worthy when Steve Jobs did it, never mind some pube-haired, eejity conference organiser.


    What's all this boll*x of fellas showing up in shorts and flip flops, college dorm fashion. You're not in California now lads. :mad::mad:

    I can't imagine anything more horrible than going on a corporate pub crawl.

    Croke Park would bring in more on weekend than this crowd, but the country is supposed to fawn at their feet....


  • #1001
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,155 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    Paddy will be on The Late Late on Friday night!
    I don't watch the LLS and plan to continue this tradition!
    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Unfortunately Tubridy can't do a half decent interview....bring in Sharon!!
    True but Tubridy has FF blood in him - might he use this to get a dig at the government?


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  • #1002
    tinpib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭tinpib


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    Paddy will be on The Late Late on Friday night!

    I'm guessing Tubbers will be in attack dog mode like he was with Paul Murphy and Renua/Lucinda/Eddie Hobbs [and possibly others I haven't seen] ??


  • #1003
    flouncer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭flouncer


    Am I seeing this wrong. Watching rte 6 one news. Was Richard Bruton and other political attendees being intentionally pushed into potted plants as they made their entry into the web summit by their host? There was loads of room for everybody to comfortably walk in the walkway but you can clearly see them having to push the plants out of their faces. Paddy, you reach new lows.


  • #1004
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,341 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    flouncer wrote: »
    Am I seeing this wrong. Watching rte 6 one news. Was Richard Bruton and other political attendees being intentionally pushed into potted plants as they made their entry into the web summit by their host? There was loads of room for everybody to comfortably walk in the walkway but you can clearly see them having to push the plants out of their faces. Paddy, you reach new lows.

    I laughed at that too!

    I don't know who they were following though.


  • #1005
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Not getting the whole anti web summit mood. It's a money making operation, yes. It brings together large numbers of people looking for money with investors willing to give it if they think they can get more money back, yes. The organizers have no respect for politicians, yes. It's hypocritical giving out about price increases by hotels when it's at the same thing with food, yes. There's a lot of egotism about, yes.

    Welcome to capitalism.


  • #1006
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Fleawuss wrote: »
    Not getting the whole anti web summit mood. It's a money making operation, yes. It brings together large numbers of people looking for money with investors willing to give it if they think they can get more money back, yes. The organizers have no respect for politicians, yes. It's hypocritical giving out about price increases by hotels when it's at the same thing with food, yes. There's a lot of egotism about, yes.

    Welcome to capitalism.

    My spider senses think they were already in talks with other places to get money. If it was not about money they would not be moving.


  • #1007
    Phoebas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,371 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    mzungu wrote: »
    The start of his rehabilitation to the Irish public! Mind you, it would be great TV if they trotted out Richard Bruton for a head to head.

    I doubt Bruton would get down into the mud. I'd say he'd prefer to stick to the knitting.


  • #1008
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,500 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Fleawuss wrote: »
    Not getting the whole anti web summit mood. It's a money making operation, yes. It brings together large numbers of people looking for money with investors willing to give it if they think they can get more money back, yes. The organizers have no respect for politicians, yes. It's hypocritical giving out about price increases by hotels when it's at the same thing with food, yes. There's a lot of egotism about, yes.

    Welcome to capitalism.

    If they came out and said that then fine. But throwing the toys out of the pram and blaming everyone and anyone is childish in the extreme. Plus looking for taxpayers to foot various bills while at the same time charging ludicrous money for tickets, food etc is pretty galling.


  • #1009
    Foxtrol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,296 ✭✭✭✭Foxtrol


    Fleawuss wrote: »
    Not getting the whole anti web summit mood. It's a money making operation, yes. It brings together large numbers of people looking for money with investors willing to give it if they think they can get more money back, yes. The organizers have no respect for politicians, yes. It's hypocritical giving out about price increases by hotels when it's at the same thing with food, yes. There's a lot of egotism about, yes.

    Welcome to capitalism.

    The problem is that they’re capitalists but rather than owning it and just moving on they’ve made repeated pitiful excuses and attempted to portray that everyone is against them. They want to be seen as businessmen but act like spoilt children (with at times as much savvy as a child).


  • #1010
    flouncer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭flouncer


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    I laughed at that too!

    I don't know who they were following though.
    I didn't say I laughed at that. The web summit were happy to take the eur700,000 of taxpayers money and this is how they repay it. While i'm no fan of our politicians I find this show of disrespect a show of disrespect to the Irish taxpayer and as such a show of disrespect to you and me. I actually don't find that funny at all.


  • #1011
    Foxtrol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,296 ✭✭✭✭Foxtrol


    Newstalk just tweeted a picture of a comparison for a Lisbon hotel for the week before and the week of the event next year and they’re 400% higher during the event.

    ‘It wasn’t about the money it was the assurances’ looks to be another lie by the boys.


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  • #1012
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    Interesting blog entry from a startup - the summit seems to be singularly designed to siphon as much money as possible to Paddy by getting already paid up attendees to foot the bill for many of their activities.

    https://www.yellowschedule.com/blog/web-summit/an-irish-start-ups-experience-of-the-web-summit/


  • #1013
    the world wonders
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭the world wonders


    Fleawuss wrote: »
    It brings together large numbers of people looking for money with investors willing to give it if they think they can get more money back, yes.
    It really doesn't.. It exploits naive desperate people with unrealizable dreams of being the next Zuckerberg.


  • #1014
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    He will be on the late late on Friday that will probably be an organised question only thing cause tubbers has no testicles to dive in with the hard questtions


  • #1015
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Red Alert wrote: »
    Interesting blog entry from a startup - the summit seems to be singularly designed to siphon as much money as possible to Paddy by getting already paid up attendees to foot the bill for many of their activities.

    https://www.yellowschedule.com/blog/web-summit/an-irish-start-ups-experience-of-the-web-summit/

    Aye, I already compared it to a life coach. It's that kinda nonsense and taking advantage of people.


  • #1016
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Foxtrol wrote: »
    Newstalk just tweeted a picture of a comparison for a Lisbon hotel for the week before and the week of the event next year and they’re 400% higher during the event.

    ‘It wasn’t about the money it was the assurances’ looks to be another lie by the boys.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CS-6rfLWsAEvzrd.jpg:large


  • #1017
    Patser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,560 ✭✭✭Patser


    efb wrote: »
    Why can't the government just do their own one next year???

    Maybe Ruth Coppinger will nationalise it?


  • #1018
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,341 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    Red Alert wrote: »
    Interesting blog entry from a startup - the summit seems to be singularly designed to siphon as much money as possible to Paddy by getting already paid up attendees to foot the bill for many of their activities.

    https://www.yellowschedule.com/blog/web-summit/an-irish-start-ups-experience-of-the-web-summit/
    Additionally, Irish based start-ups get emails asking them to host Summit pub crawls, which sounds like it’s going to be great exposure for the start-ups invited. However, you are asked to foot the bill at the bar, and don’t get to choose what companies you invite. It’s a way of the Summit getting the people who can least afford it to pay for some hospitality and give foreign attendees a good time.

    Yikes!


  • #1019
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    jimmynokia wrote: »
    the hard questtions
    There will be some eloquantly rehearsed "hard" questions and "super" answers alright.


  • #1020
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    5rtytry56 wrote: »
    There will be some eloquantly rehearsed "hard" questions and "super" answers alright.

    I fully expect a sob story if he is let away with it. And playing the victim and not being unreasonable and child like.


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  • #1021
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    @DublinArsenal: Due to the we summit the Arsenal game won't be showen in the The Mercantile . Sorry about any inconvenience... https://t.co/WpY8x9Acx9

    Fecking Summit


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