Luke @Luke_Mackey Twitter profile

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

3 years

Me: I would like to set up a business account, what is the process? AIB: Fill out this 30 page document, wait 3 weeks for nothing to happen, call our unhelpful staff, and then come back into our branch where we won't know what to do. Did I mention we back brave?

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@Luke_Mackey

3 years

Incredibly lucky guy, coming through. ❤️💍

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Excited to finally talk about this. @JoinYonder , which I was lucky to co-found with @Patrick_OBoyle & @baligadeepak this year, has raised €2.6M to create the new standard for global employee benefits - starting with Health Insurance and Pensions.

Yonder raises €2.6M to reimagine global benefits

Yonder is the simple and borderless way to enrol and manage your employees in local health and retirement benefits. We're taking a complex, offline and paper-heavy category and making it delightfully...

www.kota.io

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Thrilled to announce that @kota_benefits raised a €5M Seed led by @eqtventures , along with our existing investors @northzoneVC , @Frontlinevc , and more to further our mission to make insurance and retirement benefits more accessible to modern teams 🚀

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@Luke_Mackey

5 months

About 5 months ago I could barely run a few kilometres. Today I did the Copenhagen Marathon 🇩🇰 Got that dawg.

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

About 5 weeks ago I would get out-of-breath walking up stairs

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@Luke_Mackey

6 months

Feeling pretty humbled this morning. It's an honour to be named in @Forbes 30 Under 30 2024 for Europe. I'm not a big fan of lists or awards. They can be a distraction, and we go out of our way to avoid doing them. They're not always a true reflection of a company's success or

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Yonder 🤝 Irish Life

Irish-founded platform Yonder signs deal with Irish Life

The company made the deal to help employees access health insurance and retirement benefits

www.irishtimes.com

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

7 months

We need a mentality shift and change from the unambitious, uninspiring status quo in Ireland. Well done to my guy @willobri who eloquently shares the views of @EireAcc with @davidmcw 🚀

2024:17 What is Éire Accelerationism and Why Does it Matter? with Will O'Brien

The David McWilliams Podcast · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

About 5 weeks ago I would get out-of-breath walking up stairs

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@Luke_Mackey

5 months

All throughout our beautiful city, you can find amazing examples of the attention to detail, ingenuity, and care that our council has put into their craft. ❤️ @DubCityCouncil

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Today we started onboarding companies and their employees to the V1 of our mobile pension. Within 4-hours we had 75%+ activation rate. 📈

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

3 years

Flying out of T1 this morning. Did security in T2 (20 mins). Now have hours to spare. 😂

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Making some changes 👀 ✨

Kota

@kota_benefits

1 year

🗞️ We’re saying goodbye Yonder… Well, only the name. Today, we’re making some changes and renaming from Yonder to Kota as we embark on the next chapter in our journey. Learn more:

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Lisbon with the @JoinYonder gang

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@Luke_Mackey

10 months

Oh look, @kota_benefits made a list

The Hottest Startups in Dublin

The Irish capital is excelling on “pick and shovel” companies that help other businesses get stuff done.

www.wired.com

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Free Now's 'Technology Fee' is no longer a set amount. It's dynamically priced based on the vaguest of factors. Didn't realise this was legal in the Irish market.

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@Luke_Mackey

5 months

BYOB, as we've been calling internally for the last few weeks, is a simple but deadly release. It increases the aperture further; it means you can add your existing core or flexible benefits, support larger teams with more complex offerings, and bring something new to the market.

Kota

@kota_benefits

5 months

🚀 NEW: Today, we’re launching ‘Bring Your Own Benefits’ on the Kota platform - giving you all-in-one payroll reporting for benefits and letting your team manage everything from their health insurance to their bike-to-work schemes from their pockets.

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

3 years

Building something very new and hiring across the board - Engineering, design, compliance and a Chief of Staff. DMs open.

Roles @ Yonder | Notion

Mission

goyonder.notion.site

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Recharge 🔋

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

People like Eamon enable 'good chaotic energy' people like me – to help channel that energy toward a more worthwhile cause 😅 I am eternally grateful for that and lucky to have @BroadstoneVC in my corner.

Eamon Leonard

@EamonLeonard

2 years

I first met @Luke_Mackey in 2016, because he wouldn't stop emailing me 🤣 He was building a startup straight out of college, and he was full of the good chaotic energy that often comes with someone who has started building something for the first time. (1/n

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Judging by the number of recurring dev shops visiting our website, there is at least 20 attempted Yonder clones incoming

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

3 years

We’re cooking up something good, come join us 🤌 We’re looking for a Founding Product Designer to join our little team. We’re location-agnostic. DMs open.

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@Luke_Mackey

6 months

@cianginty @realBobbyHealy So it’s not narrowing the path then, you just don’t like that someone is trying to accommodate EV car charging through their on street parking? I thought this was rather progressive and should be encouraged rather than inhibit the use of EV.

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Nice release today – we can now cover employees across Europe in a matter of minutes 🇪🇺

Kota

@kota_benefits

2 years

We're going global 🌍 We are now offering Health Insurance in 30 European countries 🎉

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Tackling big problems is always easier when surrounded by a community like @dogpatchlabs 🙏

Dogpatch Labs

@dogpatchlabs

2 years

It’s #MeetOurMembers Monday - first up is @JoinYonder 👋 From sealing €2.7M funding, to featuring in Forbes & speaking at Web Summit in 2022, co-founder @Luke_Mackey sat down with us to share Yonder’s story of how it’s changing employee benefits for companies worldwide 👇

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

I’m looking to hire a go-to-market generalist, to work alongside myself and our GTM function at Yonder. You’ll be context switching to support the team on outbound, partnerships, content – plus anything else that moves the needle on growth. 🚀

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

11 months

Bringing embedded finance to Health Insurance – Version 0.1 😉

Kota

@kota_benefits

11 months

NEW: Introducing Embedded Health Insurance ✨ The technology infrastructure and integrations we built to power our solution can now be used by our partners to improve their distribution. Learn more here:

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Very cool to see @JoinYonder included in this

angela strange

@astrange

2 years

1/ The company of the future is default global: A startup's first 50-100 employees may span several countries. What are the software cos needed to support companies that are multi-country/multi-currency from Day 1? w. @illscience @seema_amble @joeschmidtiv

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Say hello to this new addition to the fam, Franklin 👋

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

10 months

Velocity is growing, lots of learnings, but strong first year of trading for @kota_benefits - wait till you see what’s coming.

Kota

@kota_benefits

10 months

t’s been a formative year for the team at Kota; we’re incredibly proud of what we’re building and the impact it’s been having on companies and their people. Here is just some of what we did this year...

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

3 years

Picked up a little fixed wheel and happy with how I’ve been able to optimise for space in the home office 🚲

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Weekends have been a very necessary breather recently. Catch up on sleep, work, podcasts - lots of walks & coffees with this guy.

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

We’re hiring our first full-time product designer at @JoinYonder - come join us as we build an entirely new vertical, mixing. You’ll own web, mobile and bits of brand too. ✨

Product Designer at Yonder | Notion

About the role

yonderapp.notion.site

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

11 months

Going to tell my kids this was Wework

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Looks like I’ll have to find something else to complain about

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

I was in a pub as a child and saw a guy stretched out with his feet up on a stool. I ran up to him and told him it’s very rude to do that and he should take his feet down. Turned out it was Pierce Brosnan. He laughed and bought me a coke. Best Bond for this very reason.

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@gothamhiphop

1 year

What’s your favorite interaction you’ve had with a celebrity?

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

TripActions rebrand is the best thing to happen to a certain Meath town since Pierce Brosnan

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

don't let a bollard hit you on the way out

The Irish Times

@IrishTimes

1 year

Owen Keegan bows out after 10 years as Dublin City Council chief executive

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Last week at @JoinYonder , we released HRIS Sync – giving companies the ability to sync their HR tool to their insurance and retirement plans, removing hours of manual entry. This is a first for Europe, so I wanted to show how it works

HRIS Sync | How it works

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

👋 🚀

EQT Ventures

@eqtventures

1 year

🚨We’re proud to be leading the €5 million Seed round of @kota_benefits , the all-in-one platform automating financial benefits for modern teams. In the blog below, EQT Ventures Principal Naza Metghalchi explains why we’re joining Kota's journey. 🚀

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

The new Battersea Station development is so ambitious and has an insanely high spec - would be nice to see this at home 💸 Bought for £400m invested £9bn 🏠 4,000 new homes housing 25k 🍏 Apple moving UK HQ to Battersea 🚇 Purpose built tube stop 🛍️ Retail to drive 30m ppl yrly

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@Luke_Mackey

6 months

Until you can name a European capital with worse public transport than Dublin, I’d suggest this guy goes back to making Dublin City a place people even want to drive into.

The Irish Times

@IrishTimes

6 months

Dublin City Council’s new chief: ‘If I can help climate efforts by making it a little more difficult for motorists, well then that’s what I’ll do’

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

6 months

Loving what @eoincambay and Swan are building – such a hard problem that they're solving. The new website is 🤌

Swan

@hq_swan

6 months

Meet Swan Try-On, our latest AI model. That lets anyone upload an image of themselves to virtually try-on clothing. Live with customers this month!

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

10 months

Last London trip of the year. Flight 38 of ‘23.

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

3 years

@GallagherGarvan @BrianCVC Ehh, pretty sure spent an hour filling out paper work in a branch at the start…

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Is there any other airline that mid-flight decides it’s ok to change the destination airport? Last night @Ryanair left my fiancée in Rome instead of Naples, meaning she needed to take a 6 hour bus journey in the middle of the night…

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@Luke_Mackey

8 months

Ambitious people rarely go into politics. Power hungry / nepo babies do though; which is why we are led by a bunch of status quo bearing social climbers with a fetish for slow, expensive, tiring incrementalism.

Finn Murphy

@FinnMurphy12

8 months

The dearth of ideas in Irish politics is incredibly disappointing - Eamon Ryan calling for an expansion of the State in yesterday’s Irish Times & the major initiatives touted are the expansion of the regulatory state. Incentivise making things. Not burying us in bureaucracy.

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

We're hiring at @JoinYonder 👋 - Our first Senior GTM role working with me to build out our sales and partnership motions - A Chief of Staff to work with the founders and help us move even quicker

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

We've got some incredible VCs and investors at Yonder, who add insane levels of value and support. Broadstone has been one of them – cannot speak more highly of them. Great opp to join them early.

Broadstone.vc

@BroadstoneVC

1 year

👋 SOME NEWS We're inviting twenty angel investors to join us investing in a new generation of high-potential and globally-focused founders. For more details and to get access:

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

3 years

Just when I thought my Square stock had hit the floor…

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@patrickc

3 years

Stripe is partnering with Apple to enable Tap to Pay on iPhone: . (You can sign up to be notified when it's available over at .)

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

3 years

Recently moved into a new apartment, and of course every floor is the same. I just got off the lift and stormed into an apartment thinking it was mine and met the actual owner in the hallway… Really not getting off on the best foot with the new neighbours..

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Dublin is a town, not a city. It’s ability to progress is in the hands of stubbornly lethargic, unambitious bureaucrats who don’t actually care what it’s people want. Gut wrenchingly depressing watching it’s continued demise.

Cónal Thomas

@ConalThomas

2 years

Dublin’s tallest building refused planning permission over fears it would 'injure skyline' -

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

10 months

Soho, in one of busiest (and best) cities in the world — not a bollard in sight. @DubCityCouncil

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

5 months

In Copenhagen, where the metro is timed to within a fraction of a minute. 😍 They also only open the train doors briefly to stop overcrowding.

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Glorious sight at gate 409

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Big 2023 ahead

Kota

@kota_benefits

2 years

Wow, what a year – our first, and one to remember. Next year you’ll see a lot more of what we’ve been up to, but here’s a quick snapshot… 🐣 Founded in early 2022 with the aim to solve HUGE problem in employee benefits, namely health and retirement Cont…

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Irish banks (which are part owned by the government) are getting pummelled by Revolut and the *only* thing they have is security/treasury - yet they refuse to leverage this by way of interest rates returns to customers. It’s idiotic.

Big three banks set to make over €5 billion in combined profits

Thanks to the series of interest rate hikes by the ECB, both AIB and Bank of Ireland are set to report their highest ever profits – slightly more than in the Celtic Tiger era

www.businesspost.ie

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Already had my first impromptu run-in with an Irish person on the streets of Lisbon 🇵🇹🤝🇮🇪

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

I found where Dublin City Council go for all their great design ideas

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Just because SVB had ‘Silicon Valley’ in its name, people keep confusing depositors, as investors. If any major corporate bank can just fail and people sit on sidelines and say “you took that risk” then what is the point in regulators and government.

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

It's the little things ✨

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

7 months

I finally found something I want the EU to regulate on the internet

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Chilli’s we’re piping hot

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

This is such a narrow minded trend. Building remote companies has nothing to do with dedication and everything to do with ambition. Ambition to work with the best people, no matter where they live and think global from day 1.

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@zebulgar

2 years

running an early stage company fully remotely just shows a lack of dedication just tells people you are not a serious founder

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

This is such a cool programme to have in the ecosystem 👏👏

Dogpatch Labs

@dogpatchlabs

1 year

#Founders invests in people, not startups. 🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Be part of a cohort of 40 folks with high entrepreneurial potential 🔥 Access 50+ top mentors incl. @realBobbyHealy , @AineKerr & @stephenkinsella 💰 Get funding from Day 1 with a €2k stipend p/m Is this you?

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

I don’t think I could ever reach the level of boujeeness that is required to pay for business class on Dublin to London

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

We couldn’t be luckier to have an incredible group of investors, co-led by @northzoneVC and @Frontlinevc , alongside @cocoadotvc , @BroadstoneVC , Nomad Capital and many others.

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

The hype is real

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Building startups is 80% mental fortitude and 20% luck

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Sad and embarrassing to see. We need an education system that’s accessible and inclusive so people don’t grow up like this.

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

It’s war out there if you’re getting a taxi in the centre. I ordered a taxi. He arrive, pulled into an inlet beyond where the pin was. I walk up and rolls down his window asking for my name. Then goes “You’ll have to be quicker than that!” Drove off and cancelled the trip.

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@Luke_Mackey

8 months

I need to get a life @Superhuman

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Work, life, balance.

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Dublin Village Council only thing stopping us becoming an economic powerhouse

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

2 years

The transformation of London.

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Making very tedious, offline things very simple 👇

Kota

@kota_benefits

2 years

Just how easy is it to set up and manage health and retirement benefits for a scaling team? Well, we’ve made it pretty simple ✨ Our CEO, @Luke_Mackey , talks through a demo of how Yonder works for companies and their people.

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

A story in three parts

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Weekends call for long walks & podcasts

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@Luke_Mackey

10 months

Someone build Skyscanner, powered by AI, that I can say the climate, budget and the dates, and then it suggests destinations, flights and hotels.

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

The replies to this... Will we get over our 'who do we think we are?' attitude. It's a few watch shops, relax and go about your life.

Maïa Dunphy

@MaiaDunphy

1 year

Christ on a bike! Do we have the economy for a conjoined sextet of watch shops in Dublin?! #madted #celtictigerhiddentimepiece

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@Luke_Mackey

11 months

What a bizarre cold-email interaction

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

A very snowy Gatwick this morning

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Some people can’t help getting a few scoops in early

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Leuven is lovely

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@Luke_Mackey

3 years

To make matters even worse, my first thought was “who are you and why are you in my apartment?!”

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

11 months

@Jobvo Job’s Jobs 👀

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

“Dublin is full, there’s no where to build houses”

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Has a company announcing their plans to raise ever resulted in a successful raise?

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Great to speak about building startups in 2023 at Dublin Tech Summit @dccahalane @paulhayesman

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@Luke_Mackey

1 year

First Irish winner at a DH World Cup - hats off! 🚀

Eurosport

@eurosport

1 year

The ride of his life 🤩 Oisin O Callaghan with one of the best performances of his career to secure the men’s Downhill World Cup and the Irish 1-2 🇮🇪🥇 #MTBWorldCup | @UCI_MTB

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Day 4 of Rock Wercher, in Belgium. In comparison to Irish festivals, it’s planets away. Clean, safe, accessible. Chill crowd of all ages.

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

1 year

Lot of *this* going on in Dublin at the moment

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

6 months

Ah yes, focus on the PR, not try to fix why they left.

Sheel Mohnot

@pitdesi

6 months

EU regulator calls Stripe a “European success story” Is that like how Google is a Russian success story? Patrick actually has a blog post on why he couldn’t have started Stripe in Ireland (below)

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Things you love to see

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

WFH means he can always guilt me into to a quick walk between calls

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Zenly numbers seem on par with BeReal, who were recently valued at 600m+. Such an odd move.

Gergely Orosz

@GergelyOrosz

2 years

Just in: as part of the layoffs, Snap is shutting down Zenly, location-based social app with ~40M MAUs, growing fast. Zenly is (was?) very popular in Japan, SE-Asia, Eastern EU. Snap is not even spinning it off: it's just shutting it down, vey soon. Zenly employees are stunned.

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@Luke_Mackey

5 months

Insane that Bill Ackman legitimately thinks Ubers tech could sync to Curb (yellow cab tech) in realtime and would show applied tips in Uber — then tweet this. They get paid after the fact. The comments are even worse.

Bill Ackman

@BillAckman

5 months

I took an @Uber today and for the first time was offered a NYC yellow cab. I thought good for Uber supporting the cabbies. I asked the driver about his experience with Uber and he surprised me by saying it was bad. He explained that even when the passenger agreed to pay a tip

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@Luke_Mackey

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I milled myself on black ice this morning - stay safe out there 🚲 On the bright side, a school full of kids saw me make the mistake and I hope they learn from it (and wear a helmet)

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Luke

@Luke_Mackey

2 years

Blame my faith in the product team and Jack, but this is looking like a long term L I need to own

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

If after 6 years of ‘pioneering’ micro-mobility, I give you $1, and you get back .25c — the jig is up

Cory Weinberg

@coryweinberg

2 years

Bird, a company whose ex-CEO used the term "fake news" to describe an unflattering but accurate news article about it, now tells the SEC it inflated revenue for >2 years.

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@Luke_Mackey

2 years

@DavidNewell95 You should be proud of what you built and the people you’ve brought together. Pushed the ecosystem forward ❤️

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