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a great buzz outside the door. It It’s a fast-changing industry but
brings a different edge to coming Rory feels that Ireland and our
to work in Ireland. Some people AS A PLACE TO LIVE people are adept at changing with
want to go to the city but other AND WORK WEXFORD the times and staying ahead of the
people are looking for a different HAS FEW EQUALS. IT technological curve. That’s a trait
experience.” BRINGS A DIFFERENT that is likely to serve Scurri well ABOVE:
Rory O’Connor,
Rory started the business on EDGE TO COMING TO into the future. CEO and Founder,
Scurri
November 22, 2010, a day of WORK IN IRELAND. “I’m very optimistic,” he says.
infamy in Irish economic history “E-commerce has been growing
as it was on that date that the and we find that we have the most
international troika came to this progressive customers. I don’t see
country to resuscitate our then- days of the recession but things that abating. It’s only going to
dying economy. Now, it’s all have changed an awful lot. keep growing.”
different and there’s a palpable However, in the tech industry there
mood of confidence.
hasn’t really been a recession. We’ve
“We started right in the darkest been quite cushioned from it.”

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