BBusiness Read More What to make of Collison-commissioned research on Irish economy – The Irish TimesMarch 20, 2026 There is a lot of hand-wringing about the Irish economy these days, be it infrastructure, housing or a…
BBusiness Read More Irish-founded payments firm Stripe is considering a takeover of rival PayPal – The JournalFebruary 25, 2026 Irish-founded payments firm Stripe is considering a takeover of rival PayPal The JournalAdrian Weckler: Ireland’s biggest, richest company –…
BBusiness Read More Stripe is weighing up possible acquisition of payments pioneer PayPal – The Irish TimesFebruary 25, 2026 Irish led payment processing firm Stripe is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal, according to…
BBusiness Read More Irish-founded fintech Stripe valued at $159bn – The Irish TimesFebruary 24, 2026 Irish-founded fintech Stripe has been valued at more than $159 billion (€135bn) following a tender offer that allowed…
BBusiness Read More Stripe valuation set to hit $140bn in new tender offer – The Irish TimesFebruary 10, 2026 Payments company Stripe is arranging a tender offer that would give the company cofounded by the Collison brothers…
AArtificial intelligence Read More Elon Musk warns the U.S. is ‘1,000% going to go bankrupt’ unless AI and robotics save the economy from crushing debtFebruary 8, 2026 Tesla CEO Elon Musk doubled down on his warnings about U.S. debt, predicting financial doom will be guaranteed…
BBusiness Read More Elon Musk met John Collison for a pint. Here’s what happened – The Irish TimesFebruary 6, 2026 Two billionaires and a wealthy podcaster walk into a simulation of a bar. John Collison, Ireland’s second-richest man,…
BBusiness Read More Who are Ireland’s 11 billionaires and what are they worth? – The Irish TimesJanuary 20, 2026 The total wealth of Ireland’s billionaires stood at $54.4 billion (€46.3 billion) at the end of last year,…
BBusiness Read More Wind auction may tell us if John Collison is right about our inability to get things done – The Irish TimesNovember 26, 2025 Last Friday, an 8,500-word take down of John Collison‘s recent Irish Times opinion piece bemoaning the inability of…
IIreland Read More Ireland needs to build wind projects at scale and speed up decision making – The Irish TimesNovember 10, 2025 John Collison’s recent essay in The Irish Times has sparked a national conversation that matters. His argument about…
IIreland Read More John Collison’s critique of Ireland’s failures stirs coalition debate – The Irish TimesOctober 27, 2025 Billionaire tech founder John Collison’s comments on Ireland’s lethargic development of housing and infrastructure are “food for thought”…
IIreland Read More Ireland is going backwards. Here’s how to get it moving – The Irish TimesOctober 25, 2025 In any discussion of where Ireland finds itself, the first thing to note is how much it has…