CEO @joinfounderlabs | EIR @DogpatchLabs | Troublemaker in @ormeau_labs
Joined June 2012
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Jun 3
London Tech Week starts on Monday. There are a lot of folk travelling from Ireland (North and South), including the awesome Founder Labs cohort. So we decided to organise a casual meetup. We are taking the Jack Charlton approach to selection.
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Jun 3
If you are Irish, are related to someone Irish, have been to Ireland or can find it on a map - you are welcome to come along.
📍 The Porterhouse, Covent Garden Bar
🕕 Monday 8th June 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
See you Monday. No sign up page. Just come along.
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Ian Browne retweeted
One year ago @StephenFarryUU and I argued that NI needs a cross-cutting AI strategy so that AI be harnessed to drive productivity and proactively up/re-skill our workforce. We can’t afford to be passive on this. @UlsterUniSPU
@UlsterUni
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May 10
Female-dominated clerical work is among the most vulnerable to automation, and labour market losses are already being felt.
Read more here: ft.trib.al/v65DI4O
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Feb 26
Anecdotally this reads true in current workplace comms. In the middle of the bell curve it’s hard to tell the difference not just because AI is sounding human, but both are beginning to sound like each other.
Jan 22
Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language
Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT
Model collapse, except for humans arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754v1
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Ian Browne retweeted
💫 Who can build the best AI Agents in 2 hours - founders or VCs?
Join the SVV team at @ormeau_labs on 4 March for Founders vs VCs: a fast, slightly chaotic build sprint.
Teams of two. 120 minutes. Ship something real.
🎟️ luma.com/varqnd4d
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Feb 13
Need a little nudge to get your application done? @ij_browne has you covered and built a live countdown timer so you can watch the clock tick down in real time. claude.ai/public/artifacts/7…
2 days left to apply for the Founder Labs Accelerator Programme.
Funded by: @InvestNI
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Feb 10
The countdown is on! Just 5 days left to apply to Founder Labs.
Learn more about Founder Labs: zurl.co/AGov8*
Check the FAQs for eligibility
Funded by: @InvestNI
Partnered with: @ormeau_labs | @QUBelfast | @dogpatchlabs | The AMP
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Ian Browne retweeted
Always great to be at The AMP. Thank you to all that showed up to hear from Ryan Williams, Jennifer Neff and the FL team yesterday.
Learn more about Founder Labs: zurl.co/AGov8
Funded by: @InvestNI
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Feb 3
This sort of back office legal work has been a growth area in Belfast over the last decade. The jobs aren’t going to instantly evaporate but the environment is changing.
Feb 3
Tens of billions wiped off media and financial data groups after Anthropic AI launch ft.trib.al/wHUhswR
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Jan 15
This is a real accelerant for Northern Irish founders to get connected to an international network. Love it 👏
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Jan 6
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2026 has kicked off and with it so has our applications for the next FL programme. Ready to go to next stage, we want to hear from you. lnkd.in/eneQNt9k
We’re hosting Office Hours to give you 121 advice on your application and the programme.
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Jan 6
Looking for 10 more ambitious founders to build something great in 2026. Apply now. DM me if you have any questions founderlabs.network
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12 Dec 2025
So excited to enter the Belfast community!
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12 Dec 2025
Thanks to @ChasTaylor for covering what’s happening up north. There’s a lot of fun stuff planned with @Techstars x @ormeau_labs x @QUBelfast launching in Jan. Will be fun 😃 businesspost.ie/article/tech…
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11 Nov 2025
This is an increasing trend. Which is worrying for Ireland (North and South)
10 Nov 2025
Today I had lunch with twelve young Irish people -- a wonderful bunch in their early 20s working on rockets, biotech, software/AI, etc. I enquired about whether any were planning on leaving Ireland over the next 3 years. All hands but one went up. I asked the holdout why he was staying; he clarified that he was also going to leave, just not in the next three years.
Mobility is a wonderful thing, but it feels worrisome if everyone in such a group concludes that they ought to emigrate.
This desire seems to generalize. A 2023 study suggested that more young people want to leave Ireland than any other EU country.
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23 Oct 2025
These are some of the most influential people in ecosystem development globally. All friends. And I’ve seen them all this week. #legends @genemurphy @adam_haun @ij_browne @1250 and Morgan Berman from @Alloy_Ventures
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21 Oct 2025
I see both SAFE and Stripe Atlas as “the sensible defaults you use for early corporate infrastructure so you can reserve founder brainsweat for places where individual variation actually adds a lot of value.”
20 Oct 2025
To: founders@
Subject: SAFEs
You can now send, sign, and track SAFEs in a few clicks, right from the @atlas dashboard.
Sincerely,
The Stripe team
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