Will Knott

I first heard about the Collison brothers (John and Partick) and their company Auctomatic when the pair arrived at Open Coffee Limerick and talked about the company, the move to the US and how they couldn’t get investment in Ireland, but could in Silicon Valley. I think the visit led to the Paddy’s Valley trip. Source: Phil KastThe podcast audio and video is still available. What I heard was, the messages on Jaiku about what these teenagers were doing. Yesterday, and via Mulley on Twitter I heard that the brothers were now millionaires (on paper anyway).

Auctomatic is software to help sellers catalogue and manage their stock on on-line auction houses ad e-commerce sites. The stories of how the sellers were doing stock control beforehand is funny, tragic and on the podcast. Anyway, the press releases were released that the news is that Auctomatic is partnering with Live Current Media. So congratulations to Patrick Collison, John Collison, Kulveer Taggar, Harjeet Taggar, Phil Kast and Brian Collins.

take care,
Will

Tags: Auctomatic, Ireland, Live Current Media, Silicon Valley

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