Sean Mullaney
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1,197 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 23 Apr
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And so obviously it was a volume game.
The network were keeping 90% of it just for the billing and credit card processing.
And with 50,000 people, our town was pretty small at the time.
And there was no venture capital.
So we had to basically live off of the mobile phone sales.
Um, so, uh, it wasn't until Apple arrived, created the app store, created the billing infrastructure, uh, for users, um, that mobile apps really took off.
And that was in what, 2008 probably.
Um, so we were at least seven years too early, um, which as I said, the same thing as being wrong.
100%.
Yeah.
And then we built a, what would be called now, I guess, Internet of Things company.
So we used our mobile knowledge to wire up retail stores and create, control all the refrigerators and lighting and everything.
And it was kind of like a nest or, you know, kind of one of those thermostats for industrial.
And God, you know, what I learned about this thing is that a friend of mine was running an HVAC company and we were having pints one night
And he was telling us about how he was buying these systems for some of the stores for like $10,000 to $100,000 for these like control systems.
And we just immediately went, I could build that on a mobile phone.
He's like, what?
And I said, yeah, we could do it on a mobile phone.
It probably costs a couple hundred bucks.
He's like, really?
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