Profile: Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave

The Web Summit kicks off this morning in Dublin's RDS. Philip Connolly profiled Paddy Cosgrave, the 31 year old founder of the event, for the Sunday Business Post.

Paddy Cosgrave: “A barometer of doing a good thing in Ireland is that people start saying bad things about you.”

The Web Summit kicks off this morning and will attract more than 20,000 of the tech world’s brightest and best to the RDS in Dublin. Philip Connolly profiled Paddy Cosgrave, the 31 year old founder of the event, for the Sunday Business Post.

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