From tech to social media influencer: how @WineListGuy Jonathan Staunton pivoted career at age 50
Now from selling Irish pubs in Italy to US multinationals in Ireland to co-founding a fintech startup here to now becoming a breakout international social media wine influencer.
From tech to social media influencer: how @WineListGuy Jonathan Staunton pivoted career at age 50
I'm talking today to the talented Mr. Jonathan Staunton, also known on social media as Wine List Guy, who has been named the Wine Sommelier 2025 at the Vino Influencer Global Awards in Spain.
From tech to social media influencer: how @WineListGuy Jonathan Staunton pivoted career at age 50
I'm going to get into the wine fluencer ring in a couple of minutes, but you've gone from being what is to us quite a conventional business person weaving in and out of tech marketing, you know, multinational startups, the kind of thing.
From tech to social media influencer: how @WineListGuy Jonathan Staunton pivoted career at age 50
things that we cover and the kind of people that we regularly talk to, to being one of Ireland's sort of fastest growing and now European award winning wine influencers with tens of thousands of followers on social media, especially Instagram.
From tech to social media influencer: how @WineListGuy Jonathan Staunton pivoted career at age 50
And your first experience in business had an interesting cultural route into it in that you left school and went to stay with your aunt and your communist city planner uncle, didn't you?