Patrick and John Collison who I mentioned previously here, are featured in the Irish Times this morning. Link. (sub required) Patrick talks about how they started Auctomatic and what they are up to with it. Nice to see something about young tech entrepreneurs in the papers. Might inspire others as well.
Some quotes:
They rented an office in Limerick for three months but had no luck in securing funding in Ireland despite applying to Enterprise Ireland and other sources of seed funding.
“From my limited experience, organisations in Ireland are much more risk-averse and very credentials-oriented,” says Patrick.
The pair applied for funding to Y Combinator, a specialist seed fund established by Paul Graham.
Paul Buchheit, the architect of Google’s Gmail application and the man who suggested the company’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto, has invested, while Evan Williams, creator of Google’s blogger platform, sits on the board.
Well done on the coverage lads! I say we visit the lads when we’re over for Paddy’s Valley, distract them and steal their Blackberrys and get their contacts lists. 🙂
That’s a great story.
auctomatic.com looks gorgeous and they have a great team.
Can’t wait to see what they come up with.