‘The nation’s favourite intern’: Paddy Cosgrave’s nervous start with Web Summit

Kennedy was excited about the idea of well-known people in the tech world such as Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, coming to Ireland. He told Paddy to keep him posted and the pair parted ways after Paddy gave Kennedy a photocopy of an article on economics he had recently read in the Guardian. A few weeks later, while sitting in his office, John recalls being summoned to the boardroom to find Paddy chatting with the publisher of Silicon Republic in what to him appeared to be a blatant attempt not to take a lukewarm promise as an answer.