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Video: Mark Twomey (aka Storagezilla) on Irish Startups

October 20th, 2007 | Category: Global Web, Video

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At the recent Boston Bloggers dinner I was able to interview Mark Twomey, his blog Storagezilla, I’ve been keeping track of for a few years since I left HDS. I was surprised to find he was around my age, I expected him to be much older. He came the farthest distance for the event (Ireland) and was able to share with us about “Patty Paddy’s Valley” on how there’s a few web startups that are coming out to Silicon Valley for the next gold rush. Sadly, my camera ran out of memory space, so our interview got a bit cut off. Apparently, I inadvertently outed his true identity by linking to his blog a few years ago and exposing his name, fortunately, it all turned to good, I hope he writes up a post about that experience.

Read Write Web has a list of Irish startups if you want to learn more. Oh, and no, the green lighting wasn’t intentional.

7 Comments so far

  1. Damien Mulley October 20th, 2007 7:37 am

    Hey Jeremiah it’s Paddy’s Valley :), our blog is here: http://www.paddysvalley.org Patty is an American-only term which us Irish would not be so fond of. Myself, Conor O’Neill from LouderVoice.com and James Corbett (http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/)are the ones bringing about 20-25 Irish folks over in December to play tourist. Shel Israel and Jennifer Jones have given us some good advice on what to do and who to meet.

  2. jeremiah_owyang October 20th, 2007 8:12 am

    Damien

    Sorry about that, I’ve corrected the text, no harm intended.

    What? You know Shel and Jennifer? They are both GREAT friends of mine, I had dinner with Shel last night, and talked to Jennifer on the phone just last night.

  3. Damien Mulley October 20th, 2007 8:14 am

    Aye, I know there was no harm but “patty” grates on the brain. No Shel well enough, the reason I’m subbed to your blog and Twitter and Shel put me in contact with Jennifer then too. Mr Connector. :)

  4. Damien Mulley October 20th, 2007 8:18 am

    *Know Shel

  5. jeremiah_owyang October 20th, 2007 9:23 am

    Shel’s a major node, more than a connector.

  6. shel israel October 20th, 2007 10:03 am

    Not only does Damien know me, he and my wife Paula are good friends. Damien and the entire Cork contingent are good people. I am hopeful that I can help bring this group and Silicon Valley closer together. Because of my travel schedule, I will have much less time to serve as their host than I had planned.

  7. Dan Schawbel October 20th, 2007 4:36 pm

    Mark is the man

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