By James Cooley - March 29 2008 tags: ireland

Nice to see one of the panelists at BarCampGalway becoming an Irish media legend. John Collison, and his brother Patrick are entering into Irish media mythology after their appearance on the Irish equivalent of Jay Leno (admittedly without the monologue or the humor - permanent writers's strike here :). Unfortunately, the interview spent four minutes on school grades, college and then had a go at the funding organs in Ireland. The short time would have been much better spent talking about networking, funding and how they did it. Here's the interview:

Very impressive achievement. Overcoming the failings of the startup environment is a small part of what they did. Well done guys. Great story.