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Web Summit quits Dublin

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  • #1622
    stmol32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


    I'm after reading that three times and I still can't tell if he's serious or taking the piss!


  • #1623
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    stmol32 wrote: »
    I'm after reading that three times and I still can't tell if he's serious or taking the piss!
    He's seriously taking the piss! :D


  • #1624
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    A load of delusional drivel.


  • #1625
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    smash wrote: »
    http://www.magico.com/



    I liked: "Paddy was simply organising a big party and invited many guests from around the world and just wanted them all to have a good time."

    Oh yea, a big party.... That Paddy wanted everyone else to organise and pay for!

    Also, what's with all the 'brothers and sisters' crap? Sounds like it was written by a free mason.

    Hipsters..... that is all.


  • #1626
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    smash wrote: »
    http://www.magico.com/



    I liked: "Paddy was simply organising a big party and invited many guests from around the world and just wanted them all to have a good time."

    Oh yea, a big party.... That Paddy wanted everyone else to organise and pay for!

    Also, what's with all the 'brothers and sisters' crap? Sounds like it was written by a free mason.

    Or an evangelist preacher!


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  • #1627
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    I don't think people get what the Web Summit is about, and these are probably the same people who don't understand that the difference between a recession and a boom is simply a positive attitude.

    What does this even mean?

    What an overall woolly letter.


  • #1628
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    What does this even mean?

    What an overall woolly letter.
    I don't know. But I'm guessing if your house is being repossessed and you can barely afford to feed your family, all you have to do is smile and it'll all become better instantly!


  • #1629
    jaykay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    What does this even mean?

    I presume its a bit like the Bertie quote about the recession.

    'Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide because frankly the only thing that motivates me is being able to actively change something,' he said.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0704/90808-economy/


  • #1630
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    What does this even mean?

    What an overall woolly letter.

    It means that the reason all those people lost their jobs and their houses in the so called 'recession' is because they weren't positive enough.


  • #1631
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Clever guy, making a fortune out of selling dreams to aspiring start ups via viral marketing.

    It's a good short term business plan if you are prepared to leave your soul at the door on the way in, I would assume it has a short enough shelf life when word gets around about the limited value in attending.


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  • #1632
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    It means that the reason all those people lost their jobs and their houses in the so called 'recession' is because they weren't positive enough.

    Of course! Those silly people. :pac:


  • #1633
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    1st email from the in today:
    WS wrote:
    Join us in Lisbon
    Web Summit is moving to Lisbon for 2016.
    Next Thursday, November 19, we’re releasing a limited number of 2-for-1 tickets for Web Summit 2016.
    Want to get one? No need to fill out any forms, just click below.
    CLICK ONCE TO GET YOUR CODE [link removed]

    Invite a female entrepreneur as your guest?
    As part of our commitment to help change the ratio in the tech industry, we’re inviting 10,000 female entrepreneurs to attend Web Summit 2016 as our guests.
    More than 5,500 female entrepreneurs have been invited in our first week. You can help change the ratio by sending a free ticket to an incredible female entrepreneur of your choice
    SEND A FREE TICKET [link removed]

    What interested me most in the mail was the following:
    WS wrote:
    No longer want to receive these mails? Unsubscribe here to change your email preferences


  • #1634
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,007 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    This story really is the gift that keeps on giving.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/lisbon-s-political-swing-left-hits-web-summit-strategy-1.2426053

    Cant wait to see how this one shakes out :D:D:D


  • #1635
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Looks like it's gone tits up for 2016 only a week after they closed up for 2015. Can't wait for Paddy to release the Portuguese government emails.


  • #1636
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    smash wrote: »
    http://www.magico.com/



    I liked: "Paddy was simply organising a big party and invited many guests from around the world and just wanted them all to have a good time."

    Oh yea, a big party.... That Paddy wanted everyone else to organise and pay for!

    Also, what's with all the 'brothers and sisters' crap? Sounds like it was written by a free mason.

    The utter corporate-speak bullsh!t on that site.


  • #1637
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    smash wrote: »
    Hard to believe that a CEO actually wrote that drivel.

    Being a CEO doesn't exempt someone from having flawed judgement ;)


  • #1638
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    The Portuguese government will be accused of using the Web Summit as a distraction and that in the space of a week alone, it had grown too big for Lisbon.
    In soon to be released emails, the Portuguese people will see why their government rejected requests for help from Summit leader Paddy Cosgrave. The emails go on to say how Cosgrave that hosting the event in Lisbon was an absolute preference but the Portuguese government were unwilling to help. If the current difficulties continue, it is expected that the event will be relocated to Lagos, Nigeria.
    "It's not about the money" Cosgrave is reported to have said laughingly.


  • #1639
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Birneybau wrote: »
    The utter corporate-speak bullsh!t on that site.

    TO be honest, I've never worked in a corporate environment where anyone would speak that way. I think it's painful attempt at sounding right on and cool.

    I'd think I'd nearly rather have the dreaded corporate speak than this faux brothers and sisters of the revolution bull****.


  • #1640
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    kbannon wrote: »
    The Portuguese government will be accused of using the Web Summit as a distraction and that in the space of a week alone, it had grown too big for Lisbon.
    In soon to be released emails, the Portuguese people will see why their government rejected requests for help from Summit leader Paddy Cosgrave. The emails go on to say how Cosgrave that hosting the event in Lisbon was an absolute preference but the Portuguese government were unwilling to help. If the current difficulties continue, it is expected that the event will be relocated to Lagos, Nigeria.
    "It's not about the money" Cosgrave is reported to have said laughingly.

    The next phase in Paddy's one man crusade to accept hush money from governments to coverup issues regarding homelessness has firmly clicked into place.


  • #1641
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    That article is waffly. I'd say the event will go ahead just fine.


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  • #1642
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    What does Karlin Lillington bring to the table? It seems to me that she has her job on the strength of being from palo alto. It may be that she is a strong technologist but I don't recall seeing evidence of it.

    I'd like a tech journalist who knows something about technology instead of just knowing people who work in technology. Of course I may be doing Karlin Lillington a disservice. It may be that this sort of tech gossip is all people want and she is in fact a lady who knows her frameworks from her framerates and her Cocoa from her Java.

    I'd love to be corrected on the above.


  • #1643
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    That article is waffly. I'd say the event will go ahead just fine.

    I really don't think so. Literally everything, including the €1.3m was offered by a government which no longer exists. It can all be retracted.


  • #1644
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    smash wrote: »
    I really don't think so. Literally everything, including the €1.3m was offered by a government which no longer exists. It can all be retracted.

    Not when a contract was signed.


  • #1645
    Treepole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭Treepole


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    That article is waffly. I'd say the event will go ahead just fine.

    Very waffly.
    It's not like it's 1.3bn. In the grand scheme of things a €1.3m investment in infrastructure is peanuts. You'd hardly get a mile of new road for that.


  • #1646
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Sheeps wrote: »
    Not when a contract was signed.

    They signed a contract with a party that does not have the power to execute it.


  • #1647
    Thinkingaboutit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    Didn't Paddy Cosgrave say he only employed fellow TCD grads? Knobhead, no loss, that added a quarter hour to my commute. The price they charged for snacks and water in there was eye watering. Someone can pay a grand admission in Portugal and maybe get some golf.


  • #1648
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    smash wrote: »
    They signed a contract with a party that does not have the power to execute it.

    The government is the legal entity that the contract would have been bound to. If you were able to simply re-elect another party in order to get out a contractual agreement nobody in their right mind would ever do business with any governments.


  • #1649
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Thinkingaboutit wrote: »
    Didn't Paddy Cosgrave say he only employed fellow TCD grads? Knobhead, no loss, that added a quarter hour to my commute. The price they charged for snacks and water in there was eye watering. Someone can pay a grand admission in Portugal and maybe get some golf.

    He said they hire people from other colleges if they have a 1:1, whereas a 2:1 would suffice from Trinity.


  • #1650
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    Thinkingaboutit wrote: »
    Didn't Paddy Cosgrave say he only employed fellow TCD grads?

    No, he didn't.


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  • #1651
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Sheeps wrote: »
    The government is the legal entity that the contract would have been bound to. If you were able to simply re-elect another party in order to get out a contractual agreement nobody in their right mind would ever do business with any governments.
    Contracts are always renegotiable.


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