Rob Walsh

I mean, I've talked to some suppliers who would, you know, probably see it at the cold front.

I don't think we've seen too much of an impact now.

The odd one may be coming from the other side of the world because of the transition and where they need to come through the Middle East.

But as I said, for my main market to be the United States, and I haven't seen it yet, I am hearing that oil prices will be affected in Q4, which would be concerning if this can't be ironed out.

Well, as a small startup business in the last two years, you know, it's a very competitive market, Ireland, and I was really trying to look at different ways of winning business and promoting my business spot.

So, you know, if I could go to the regular travel shows and the trade shows that are specific to the

tourism business, both corporate and leisure, you know, I'd probably be swamped out.

So I thought that Gateway was an opportunity for me to get in front of business leaders right across the United States and tell them about my business and how Spud is doing things differently.

I think collaboration.

I mean, every city is kind of telling us a different story and why it's amazing to work with them and I think that's a great opportunity.

I mean, for example, in Washington you've obviously got access to government and big business.

Delaware, I didn't realise that was the corporate capital of the United States.

that was very interesting to learn that the concentration of global corporate companies in Delaware and the opportunities that exist for cross collaboration between Ireland and Delaware.

And then in Philadelphia, I mean, we're hosted by Boston Consulting Group this afternoon.

And I think just understanding and learning about the opportunities that are there.

But I think, you know, Ireland's always, the United States is not a hard sell for us coming over here.

There's obviously a deep respect between the two nations.

And I think that

Going on this trip has just really reinforced that I don't think those opportunities are going to go away anytime soon.

So yeah, back before iTunes even supported podcasting, I was podcasting.