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Paddy Cosgrave

@paddycosgrave
23 posts
2026-01-30
UpScrolled is now the most downloaded mobile app in the United States! In the last hour it surpassed ChatGPT, Gemini and Threads. Likely the fastest growing app ever. This is truly insane growth and an even wilder story. [image]
2026-01-30 View on X
Forbes

Social media app UpScrolled hits #1 on Apple's US app store following allegations that TikTok suppresses anti-ICE videos; its founder says it crossed 1M users

2026-01-29
UpScrolled is now the most downloaded mobile app in the United States! In the last hour it surpassed ChatGPT, Gemini and Threads. Likely the fastest growing app ever. This is truly insane growth and an even wilder story. [image]
2026-01-29 View on X
Forbes

Social media app UpScrolled hits #1 on Apple's US app store following allegations that TikTok suppresses anti-ICE videos; its founder says it crossed 1M users

Topline  —  Social media app UpScrolled ranks No. 1 on Apple's U.S. app store as of Thursday as it capitalizes on user discontent with TikTok …

2024-04-08
Today I'm returning as CEO of @WebSummit. When I stepped back last year, it was the first time I had taken time off in 15 years. It gave me time to think about Web Summit, its history, why I started it on my own from my bedroom and what I wanted it to be. I took the time to... [video]
2024-04-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Web Summit co-founder Paddy Cosgrave confirms returning as Web Summit CEO; Cosgrave resigned in October 2023 over controversial comments on the Israel-Hamas war

Paddy Cosgrave, the co-founder of the Web Summit tech conference, is returning to his role as CEO after resigning in October …

2023-10-21
@amitkarp Thank you @amitkarp I really appreciate your response. And I'm truly sorry for the hurt caused. I've spent years supporting Israeli tech founders, not just through Web Summit, but by personally investing in Israeli entrepreneurs, including multiple times in the last 12 months...
2023-10-21 View on X
The Irish Times

Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event's co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes

he's totally fu*ked: Google pulls out of Web Summit over Cosgrave's Israel-Hamas comments https://www.irishtimes.com/... Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler : Google and Stripe have pu...

To repeat: War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies & should be called out for what they are. I will not relent.
2023-10-21 View on X
The Irish Times

Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event's co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes

he's totally fu*ked: Google pulls out of Web Summit over Cosgrave's Israel-Hamas comments https://www.irishtimes.com/... Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler : Google and Stripe have pu...

Thanks for the messages. I'm proud of what I have repeatedly stated. [image]
2023-10-21 View on X
The Irish Times

Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event's co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes

he's totally fu*ked: Google pulls out of Web Summit over Cosgrave's Israel-Hamas comments https://www.irishtimes.com/... Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler : Google and Stripe have pu...

.@amitkarp is a respected tech investor. But because he claims I “support the beheading of babies” he will never attend Web Summit. An utter lie & extreme over reaction to my perfectly reasonable & humane statement: “War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies” My... [image]
2023-10-21 View on X
The Irish Times

Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event's co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes

he's totally fu*ked: Google pulls out of Web Summit over Cosgrave's Israel-Hamas comments https://www.irishtimes.com/... Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler : Google and Stripe have pu...

2023-10-17
We are devastated to see the terrible killings and the level of innocent civilian casualties in Israel and Gaza. We condemn the attacks by Hamas and extend our deepest sympathies to everyone who has lost loved ones. We hope for peaceful reconciliation.
2023-10-17 View on X
Telegraph

Israel plans to boycott Europe's biggest tech conference, Web Summit, after the event's co-founder accused Israel of war crimes, as many tech companies pull out

given all the tweets @paddycosgrave has been liking over the last few days. I saved several of them on the attached google doc (so we have a record when the @WebSummit PR team asks...

I'm shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception in particular of Ireland's government, who for once are doing the right thing. War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are.
2023-10-17 View on X
Telegraph

Israel plans to boycott Europe's biggest tech conference, Web Summit, after the event's co-founder accused Israel of war crimes, as many tech companies pull out

given all the tweets @paddycosgrave has been liking over the last few days. I saved several of them on the attached google doc (so we have a record when the @WebSummit PR team asks...

To repeat: War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies & should be called out for what they are. I will not relent.
2023-10-17 View on X
Telegraph

Israel plans to boycott Europe's biggest tech conference, Web Summit, after the event's co-founder accused Israel of war crimes, as many tech companies pull out

given all the tweets @paddycosgrave has been liking over the last few days. I saved several of them on the attached google doc (so we have a record when the @WebSummit PR team asks...

First, what Hamas did is outrageous and disgusting. It is by every measure an act of monstrous evil. Israel has a right to defend itself, but it does not, as I have already stated, have a right to break international law. Second, here's the host of the most watched chat show in... [video]
2023-10-17 View on X
Telegraph

Israel plans to boycott Europe's biggest tech conference, Web Summit, after the event's co-founder accused Israel of war crimes, as many tech companies pull out

given all the tweets @paddycosgrave has been liking over the last few days. I saved several of them on the attached google doc (so we have a record when the @WebSummit PR team asks...

2022-04-06
$120 million raised, <$1 million in revenue & now shutting down Get used to the new world where countless unicorns worth many billions are going to fail. Being a unicorn in 2022 is like being a series A in 2012. Many A's failed. And many unicorns will too https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2022-04-06 View on X
The Information

Sources: one-click checkout startup Fast is shutting down entirely; Fast raised $120M from backers including Stripe, Index Ventures, and Addition

The Information :

2021-08-11
🚨Breaking🚨 Web Summit has been given the full green light and will be happening in person in Lisbon this November. See you all in Portugal 🚀 🇵🇹 ❤️ https://www.reuters.com/...
2021-08-11 View on X
Reuters

Web Summit, Europe's largest tech conference, will return as an in-person event in Lisbon in November, after being held virtually last year

Reuters : Tweets: @websummit , @paddycosgrave , and @rustybrick Tweets: Web Summit / @websummit : “We couldn't be more excited to return in-person. Seeing people safely connecting...

2021-04-19
Generations to come will ask why did successive FFG governments whore Ireland out to MNCs for so little Google: $75 billion in profits in 2019. $0 paid in tax Going this low was only ever in the interests of MNCs + domestic Irish elites, NOT Irish people https://www.irishtimes.com/...
2021-04-19 View on X
RTÉ

Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the “double Irish” tax scheme

Will Goodbody / RTÉ :

2021-04-18
Generations to come will ask why did successive FFG governments whore Ireland out to MNCs for so little Google: $75 billion in profits in 2019. $0 paid in tax Going this low was only ever in the interests of MNCs + domestic Irish elites, NOT Irish people https://www.irishtimes.com/...
2021-04-18 View on X
RTÉ

Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the “double Irish” tax scheme

Newly filed accounts show that over $75bn in profits moved through a subsidiary of Google that was incorporated in Ireland in 2019 …

2021-03-15
It's some achievement when you think that @stripe is now more valuable than the 20 biggest companies on the Irish stock exchange combined 🤯
2021-03-15 View on X
Financial Times

Stripe raises $600M from Sequoia Capital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley

Payments provider becomes Silicon Valley's most valuable private company  —  Stripe has become the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced …

IMHO Stripe may likely one day be a trillion dollar company They're building the world's best infrastructure common to all forms of monetary exchange It's probably one of the crazier bets I've ever seen a sovereign wealth fund anywhere in the world make, but likely a great one https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-15 View on X
Financial Times

Stripe raises $600M from Sequoia Capital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley

Payments provider becomes Silicon Valley's most valuable private company  —  Stripe has become the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced …

2020-10-08
Web Summit will feel like Eurovision live from Portugal. Instead of just seeing images from inside the Altice Arena, people from around the world will get to see all of Portugal, hear from Portugal's top startups & of course the President will close WS https://cnn.com/...
2020-10-08 View on X
CNN

Web Summit, Europe's largest technology conference, which had 70K+ attendees last year, will be held entirely online this year in December

London (CNN Business)Europe's largest technology conference will be held entirely online this year, as the coronavirus pandemic forces scores of major events to go digital.

2020-03-01
For background: @BernieSanders tax plan for options is likely influenced or even based on the work of @Lazonick Bills work on buybacks, options & exec compensation was perhaps in part popularised by this 2014 @HarvardBiz article https://hbr.org/... Cc @danprimack @paulg https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-01 View on X
CNBC

A look at top Democratic presidential candidates' stances on tech issues like breaking up Big Tech, digital privacy, encryption and backdoors, and Section 230

- Voters from 14 states and one U.S. territory will decide which Democratic candidate to support for the presidential nomination on Super Tuesday.

For background: @BernieSanders tax plan for options is likely influenced or even based on the work of @Lazonick Bills work on buybacks, options & exec compensation was perhaps in part popularised by this 2014 @HarvardBiz article https://hbr.org/... Cc @danprimack @paulg https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-01 View on X
Axios

Bernie Sanders introduces a bill that would tax stock options at vesting, not at exercise, for those making $130K+ and vesting $100K+ worth of stock per year

would tax options at vest, rather than at exercise. Many employees would be unable to pay — forcing them either to give up options or take out loans. https://www.wsj.com/... Liz We...