building Kota (where insurance benefits live on the internet)

Dublin, Ireland
Joined May 2011
Who's in SF this week? As you can tell from the the pic, here for biz.
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They blame the seagulls - but seagulls are a protected species that we can’t cull. So they continue to multiply and evolve to cause havoc. Imagine that, being outsmarted by urban seagulls.
Spend a few days in a foreign city to remind yourself that the filth of Dublin City streets & the open drug dealing are political choices. Malaga wash their streets continuously. Here, DCC used the bit of hot weather as an excuse to do even less cleaning than normal.
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This is what happens when Government Ministers have never worked a blue collar job and had to clock in for work. Just ask for the receipts.
“Show me where they are because I don’t see them” — Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD, Minister for Health, says she repeatedly asked to be shown the number of workers BAM said were on site at the National Children's Hospital 📺 #MondayGR on Virgin Media PLAY
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I’m pretty sure we could unite the country with a cabal that overthrows and disbands Dublin City Council (along with other councils). Opportunity to be a proper, progressive European city, extenuating our culture. Instead, grey, faux-modern architecture, no residents, no housing, no police, anti-nightlife, anti-business, anti-food, tarmac, pot-holes, bollards, electricity boxes, licences for the boys, another hotel, of course. Did I mention grey stained tiles.
Another stunning public realm “improvement” project brought to you by DCC.
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Or because they're gliding freely through the sky, tens of thousands of feet above the ground? Sort of like, why planes don't follow shipping lanes… The mental gymnastics of cynical.
Replying to @SligoBrian1994
I'm assuming the reason the drones don't follow roadways instead of crossing houses and gardens is it absolutely destroys the comparable delivery gains, wrecks the unit economics and it'd mean needing to build a model of objects to avoid.
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Yes, they are literally one of the few companies to invent high-load, commercial-use drones at a fraction of the investment of their US and Chinese counterparts. Arguably one of the best applications of them, too.
Replying to @Luke_Mackey
Did they invent drones?
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Might just be glazing over the autonomous flying vehicle part — founded, designed, built and deployed, in Ireland by Irish engineering talent. Whether it's food, medicine or fairy dust, people are missing the point.
One of the more ridiculous headlines. It's takeaway coffee by drone.
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Well, what do you expect. @paulmurphy_TD went from the Trinity debating society to politics. Never worked a real job. Never took a risk. Built a career on virtue signalling and sound bites. While he makes his mint on an economy created by the people he hates, and passes his time by slowing it down for local companies. He's a political terrorist, and a savvy one at that.
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Headcount growth is actually dramatically slower than revenue/customers; it's a bit of an issue. kota.io/careers
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The top cities in Europe for sitting in a coffee shop with a notepad or book for performative thinking. 1. Paris 2. Paris 3. Paris
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It's incredible how Salesforce managed to destroy such a simple part Slack, with Huddles
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Also, I have never once in my life wanted to use my iPhone as the mic.
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Dun Laighaire, framed.
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Irish founders are on a tear. None more daring than the great and powerful @Willob
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Jesus, everyone seems fairly Catholic once you start testing whether Good Friday should be off or not
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RTE needs to do Prime Time investigates on @AerLingus claiming gates are in T2, only to walk 15 mins to T1 and get on a bus to a portacabin
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Made the top 10 of the @Siftedeu 100 in the UK and Ireland - who knows insurance sucked so much!
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love it when startups invest in cool merch @baligadeepak thanks for the visit (and the drone!) @kota_benefits
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If a PLG SaaS tool does this, they deserve to get swallowed by AI.
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