> I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up hurting tech development in Ireland in the long term. I'm not sure there is much tech development to hurt. "The tale

> I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up hurting tech development in Ireland in the long term. I'm not sure there is much tech development to hurt. "The talent pool here is much smaller than that of Silicon Valley. The single most important aspect of Silicon Valley is that it’s where many great people choose to live. Stripe’s employees come from Honduras, Kenya, India, Sweden, Canada, Austria, and more—but they’ve all chosen to live in Silicon Valley. Because Ireland has fewer of these immigrants, Irish start-ups are forced to either hire from a much more limited group, or to try to convince people to move here. (A third option is to have a geographically distributed team from the start; this route is also quite tough.)" source: (scroll down) http://patrickcollison.com/ http://patrickcollison.com/