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“Show me where they are because I don’t see them” — Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD, Minister for Health, says she repeatedly asked to be shown the number of workers BAM said were on site at the National Children's Hospital 📺 #MondayGR on Virgin Media PLAY

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@Luke_Mackey Did they invent drones?

TD Paul Murphy sharing and supporting a clickbait headline that led to some bizarre celebrations online tells you a lot about his view of entrepreneurship and who he is as an individual. Public representatives should be backing people who take risks, build companies and create jobs. Not piling on this ridiculously negative headline. It's clear Paul and Ruth have some sort of dislike to Bobby and co. The Irish Times article on @realBobbyHealy is a perfect example of how little understanding some people have of start-ups and venture backed businesses. The €50m "loss" wasn't somebody burning €50m or spending it on steak dinners. It's money invested in developing technology(both software and hardware simultaneously) while also building a business that can be investable and trying to create something new and potentially exciting that has now other competitors in the landscape such as small companies like GOOGLE AND AMAZON! What also gets lost in all of this is that headlines actual matter and have real life and business knock-on effects and impacts . Potential investors read them. Future investors read them. Partners read them. Employees read them. A misleading headline can impact fundraising and confidence in a company long after the clicks have been counted and money earned by the Irish Times (a company who is heavily supported by the Gov). If a journalist doesn't have an understanding of how start-ups, R&D and venture capital work, maybe they should pick up the phone and speak to the founders before publishing a negative headline. Although I suspect they fully understand and saw the headline (normally written by the editor tbf) as a great way to stir up negative attention and support from others and create even more awareness and clicks (job well done 👏😂) Ireland needs more people willing to have an idea 🤔over a bag of chips and have a go at building it into a business. Not more people lining up to celebrate when they think someone has failed. Otherwise we will forever be depending on global tech to prop up our annual budgets... something else PM and Co have a problem with. So I'm unsure as to what they want and suspect they are too. Bobby Healy has already built successful companies, has employed 100s of people and is trying to build something ambitious and keeping it as much in Ireland as possible. That should be encouraged and supported.

We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation just weeks ago. We were a darling of the SaaS era and invented so many of the patterns you see in software today. Nearly four years ago, in need of a reboot, we jumped on weeks-old modern LLMs to create and define the category we know as Customer Agents today. Salesforce invented modern software and SaaS. And @benioff is like the final boss of tech founder CEOs. In seat for 27 years, he’s one of the last of his era. Still pushing, pivoting, placing big bets. It’s a privilege for @destraynor and I to get to partner with him and join forces with Salesforce upon close at this most fascinating time. And will be very fun to get their help bringing Fin to magnitudes more consumers. To our customers: Over the past few years we’ve been shipping intensely. Including recently our groundbreaking model, Apex, and our paradigm-defining internal agent, Operator. With the resources of Salesforce this will only accelerate. And yet little will practically change. I’ll still be CEO, Des will still be running R&D, we’ll both still be committed to continuing to lead this category. Thank you very sincerely and deeply for your belief in us. To all of our friends, our families, and our employees, past and present: While this is not the end, it is a major, pivotal, special, and emotional moment for us. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. For everything. To my cofounders, my exec team: Look what we built. Four young lads with a dream and nothing to lose. And a home grown exec team who pulled off the greatest and arguably only late stage software company pivot to AI, and invented one of the most important categories in AI. Thank you for sticking through all of this with me. And now, time to get back to work. See you at our next product launch in a couple weeks. (:

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