David Shackleton

John Collison of Stripe: Ireland is going backwards. Here’s how to get it moving irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

@collision @IrishTimes 🎯

I wrote a piece for the @IrishTimes on why Ireland can’t build anything these days, and how to fix that.

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@shane_a_lynn Your very own Truman show episode at July 4th Disneyworld people density & prices

CentreParcs is like a black hole of holiday gravity that all mid-40s people are dragged towards when kids are about 7-10. It's unavoidable. I can see it in my future. It costs tonnes. From what I can tell it's a forest in Longford.

@ciaran_lee Class

Very fun run through a small hydro setup. Would be so cool to own land with a hill and a stream. youtu.be/h_5wpkMmCOY?si…

We've all been there 😅

@realBobbyHealy @MannaAero @lancelotsmith

@kaarmann I want IBAN portability and I want it now!

Dear Governor Panetta, Thrilled that you are taking interest in cross-border money - this thing I’ve been working on fixing for the last 13 years of my life :) You are rightly pointing out that slow, expensive and stressful international payments hurt people, especially those least able to afford it, and small businesses just trying to get off the ground. But the root cause is simpler than a lack of governmental cooperation or technology 一 it is merely the lack of competition. But more interesting, why? A few things we’ve learned that could help You make a difference much faster. We have been connecting the world’s instant payment networks with Wise for a decade. We’re moving $140bn of the cross-border money and 60% of our customers’ payments arrive in less thanwhy 20 seconds. That’s all for an average fee of 0.67%, a tenth of the 6.3% cost you highlighted. No blockchain or crypto involved. All within the current regulatory frameworks. And we’ve been profitable for years. We were nobodies when we started, so anyone can do it if they are motivated. The real question is: why do the banks, who still move 95% of the worlds’ cross-border payments for people and businesses, still have the cost and experience you described? It can clearly be done cheaper, faster, better! We’ve proven it. The answer: a lack of competition. But how? It’s a free world - surely bank customers could just switch to a better bank! I’m sure they would, only if they knew what their bank was charging them. See, the 6.3% cost you referred to is mostly hidden from the customer or the business owner. As long as central banks and regulators let their local banks hide their fees in made up exchange rates and not tell their customers - there will only be options for the financially savvy people, who can work out what their bank is doing to them. Europe is getting a lot of things right about the regulatory environment, single market and even have a law against hiding FX fees. And some banks get it and are getting transparent - especially the challengers who don't have the luxury of an unsuspecting customer base. Now we need to help more of our banks get more competitive. Would love your help with that, Governor!

@dccahalane Epic

Long time since I laughed this much. This is a must watch 😂😂😂

Enterprise software sales staff when you fill out the contact form to download a PDF

Super read and latest insights into Latam, well worth a look, gold as ever from @JulioV

@ConnorPM @BrianCVC Amazing, huge congrats

Congrats Ambassador ❤️ #proudHusband

thinking: data is addictive in product leadership, and likely to intoxicate the judgment of those who lack vision and conviction. gotta leverage data for lessons from the past without blindly obeying it as you plot the future.

@DublinAirport Why not 500 or 1000 - why not let supply & demand dictate it ? You have an absolute joke on a setup going on to taxi out of the airport, an embarrassment to the country

An additional 300 taxi permits to operate at Dublin Airport have been issued to make it easier for passengers to get to and from the airport this summer. For more info see: dublinairport.com/latest-news/20… 🚕

@ConnorPM @SahilBloom 🤣 @CommunityNotes knocking it out of the park on this one

@SahilBloom Are you hiring again @dshackleton

I’ll never forget that 28 men replied to this newspaper ad.

When Irish skies are smiling... This cloud-free view of Ireland, the Emerald Isle, was captured from space by our Aqua satellite back in 2010. Happy #StPatricksDay!

@parsaghaffari @_aylien Huge congrats @parsaghaffari

Excited to announce that @_aylien has been acquired by Quantexa to bring the power of unstructured data intelligence into Quantexa's world leading Decision Intelligence platform 🎉 A huge thank you to the Aylien team, our investors, and our customers! aylien.com/blog/aylien-jo…

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@heatherGrey_ i put the news apps into the iPhone’s summary notification and it’s like a nice debrief i get twice a day. so much better than getting every single one cause they’re so frequent

the nyt is absolutely relentless with mobile notifs