Conor Moules

And that was the opportunity for me.

I knew, like, I didn't have an uncle that was going to be able to open the door for me in regards to the tech world.

I didn't have anyone relationship-wise.

I didn't know any investors.

I didn't know about accelerators.

I literally was naive to the world.

But I knew that Bamboo was public enough

that if I could turn it around, I would get the opportunity to do bare space.

So me and Lisa, and it wasn't one conversation.

We had multiple conversations because essentially it meant us leaving our home.

It meant us taking Lisa and the kids, Lisa's from Dublin city center, taking her to North Wexford to move in with my mom at,

27 28 years old like it meant no salary for i don't think i got a salary in bamboo for i can't remember off the top of my head i think it was eight nine months while we're turning that around so why connor why do why because you've taken multiple big leaps there it'd be very different if it was your business kind of felt like it was and i think that i think that was the beauty of luke as a

It felt like it was, it felt like we were all in this mission and it was, I think all the good startups can be described as this.

I say it when I'm interviewing people, like understand what you're walking into.

Like this is a cult.

This feels like a cult.

This feels like a family meets a sports team and it's people that are all obsessed about the problem and looking after the people that we service at the end of the day, who are essentially all of our bosses.

Right.

but yeah bamboo at the time for me and why i kind of did it was i think it deserves a better ending i knew like when you talk about right place right time like salons needed bamboo at the time like they needed oxygen essentially they weren't at at one point in covid they weren't allowed reopen without this kind of system so i was going to get an opportunity to scale something very fast which we did we grew the company like

We kind of went out of Dublin as well.