Gary Fox

I think it was in the early stages.

This was back, obviously, 2019.

The Web Summit was probably going about three, four years.

It was the ticket in town.

It was the hottest ticket in town.

And there was massive demand.

There wasn't as many hotels in Dublin, obviously, as there is now.

So there was always massive demand.

And Airbnb was this kind of hot new platform.

I'd used it a couple of times in the previous year.

So I'd used it in Washington for a friend's wedding.

And then me and Michelle went and did the run with the bulls in Pamplona.

So I did the run with the bulls and we stayed there because it was kind of a notion.

Like most things I do, I got a notion.

We were in Barcelona.

I was like, I'd love to run with the bulls.

I don't know why.

And then we got a bus, an overnight bus to Pamplona.

the only place to stay was an airbnb a room in some lad's house did that i was like oh this is kind of cool so it kind of had the idea from airbnb it was a really new platform and it was totally different how it is now so tested there the airbnb property management idea it took off so i said you know what that worked once let's do it again let's run multiple businesses

And then after about a month, I realized that was a terrible idea, probably less than a month.