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“I Turned a $20M Company Into a $1.45 Billion Exit” | Cathal Friel, Raglan Capital
Jun 1, 2026
1h 22m 08s
A Big Exit, Confidence & Resilience Ciarán Mulligan, Yes Insurance
May 25, 2026
1h 10m 25s
(RE-RELEASE) “Why So Many SMEs Get Stuck at €1M–€5M Revenue” | Ed Murphy, Greentech HQ
May 19, 2026
1h 34m 04s
“Why So Many SMEs Get Stuck at €1M–€5M Revenue” | Ed Murphy, Greentech HQ
May 18, 2026
1h 34m 04s
“I Built a Multi-Million Euro Business With €1,000” | Troy Armour, Junk Kouture
May 11, 2026
1h 35m 13s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/1/26 | “I Turned a $20M Company Into a $1.45 Billion Exit” | Cathal Friel, Raglan Capital | 🔔🔔 Cathal Friel explains how he built five public companies, turned a $20 million business into a $1.45 billion exit, and why IPOs may be making a comeback for ambitious entrepreneurs 🔔🔔 Cathal Friel joins Business Builders for a fascinating conversation on entrepreneurship, IPOs, public markets, distressed assets, investing, AI, and building companies across multiple industries. Cathal is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and company builder who has launched five public companies over the pas... | 1h 22m 08s | ||||||
| 5/25/26 | A Big Exit, Confidence & Resilience Ciarán Mulligan, Yes Insurance | 🔔🔔 Ciarán Mulligan explains how he built and sold Blue Insurance, why crises create opportunities in business, and how becoming a father completely changed his perspective on success 🔔🔔Ciarán Mulligan joins Business Builders for a powerful and deeply personal conversation on entrepreneurship, marketing, scaling businesses, resilience, identity, surrogacy, and what really matters after success. Ciarán is the founder of Blue Insurance, the business he built into one of Ireland’s best-known insu... | 1h 10m 25s | ||||||
| 5/19/26 | (RE-RELEASE) “Why So Many SMEs Get Stuck at €1M–€5M Revenue” | Ed Murphy, Greentech HQ | 🔔🔔 Ed Murphy explains why most businesses fail to scale, what franchising taught him about systems and growth, and why founders themselves are often the bottleneck inside their own companies 🔔🔔 Ed Murphy joins Business Builders for a fascinating conversation on scaling businesses, franchising, entrepreneurship, systems thinking, and the realities of building sustainable companies over decades. Ed is the founder of GreenTech HQ and one of Ireland’s most experienced franchise operators, having ... | 1h 34m 04s | ||||||
| 5/18/26 | “Why So Many SMEs Get Stuck at €1M–€5M Revenue” | Ed Murphy, Greentech HQ | 🔔🔔 Ed Murphy explains why most businesses fail to scale, what franchising taught him about systems and growth, and why founders themselves are often the bottleneck inside their own companies 🔔🔔 Ed Murphy joins Business Builders for a fascinating conversation on scaling businesses, franchising, entrepreneurship, systems thinking, and the realities of building sustainable companies over decades. Ed is the founder of GreenTech HQ and one of Ireland’s most experienced franchise operators, having ... | 1h 34m 04s | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | “I Built a Multi-Million Euro Business With €1,000” | Troy Armour, Junk Kouture | 🔔🔔 Troy Armour reveals how he built Junk Kouture from a €1,000 idea into a global movement, and why he believes most entrepreneurs are driven by trauma, creativity, and the need to stand out 🔔🔔 Join the movement to help spread 1 Million good deeds at Mo Chuisle: https://30daysofgooddeeds.com/ Troy Armour joins Business Builders for one of the most wide-ranging and unconventional conversations we’ve ever had, covering entrepreneurship, creativity, trauma, AI, identity, leadership, and the dee... | 1h 35m 13s | ||||||
| 4/20/26 | “You Can’t Build a Business Without Hard Decisions” | Colin Culliton, Kith&Kin✨ | business decisionsscaling a business+3 | Colin Culliton | Kith&KinBusiness Builders | — | hard decisionsbusiness growth+6 | — | 1h 04m 58s | |
| 4/13/26 | "This Is What It Takes To Really Scale a Business" | Ciaran Burke, Swoop | 🔔🔔 Ciaran Burke, CEO and co-founder of Swoop, shares how he built a global fintech platform helping 300,000+ businesses access over £2BN in funding - and the brutal realities behind scaling a startup 🔔🔔 Ciaran Burke joins Business Builders to share the story behind Swoop and the realities of building and scaling a fintech company in the modern funding landscape. What started as a simple idea - helping small businesses navigate the complex world of finance - has grown into a global platform op... | 1h 00m 57s | ||||||
| 4/6/26 | “You Don’t Need More Hustle, You Need This System” - Willie McMahon, EOS | 🔔🔔 Willie McMahon built, scaled, and sold a 45-person engineering business - then walked away to help other founders do it better. 🔔🔔 Willie is giving away 10 copies of the book Traction on a first come first served basis. If you’re running a company with between 10 - 250 employees, contact Willie to get your free copy: willie.mcmahon@eosworldwide.com Willie McMahon, EOS Implementer and founder of CalX (exited) joins Business Builders to share how he went from a one-man operation to building ... | 1h 36m 26s | ||||||
| 3/30/26 | “There Is No Finish Line in Business” | Gowri Subramanian, Aspire Systems | 🔔🔔 Gowri Subramanian built a $200M global software company over 25 years - without venture capital 🔔🔔 Gowri Subramanian, CEO of Aspire Systems, joins Business Builders to share how he built and scaled a global technology services company from zero to $200M in revenue; entirely bootstrapped. What started as a group of seven friends with no clear plan or funding became a 4,500-person software and technology services business working with global enterprises across the US, Europe, and beyond. But... | 1h 08m 44s | ||||||
| 3/23/26 | Viva La Vulva! with Laura Dowling, fabÜ | 🔔🔔 Laura Dowling, founder of fabÜ, built a business by talking about topics most people avoid; and it changed everything 🔔🔔 Laura Dowling joins Business Builders to share how she turned women’s health - one of the most overlooked and under-discussed areas in healthcare - into a fast-growing brand, a platform, and a movement. What started as years of frustration working as a pharmacist and seeing women suffer in silence with issues no one was talking about, evolved into a business, a movement,... | 1h 08m 38s | ||||||
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| 3/16/26 | From SAAS to Snacks with Jayne Ronayne (OAC Snacks | Talivest) | My guest today is Jayne Ronayne, Co-Founder and CEO of OAC Snacks, an e-commerce company focusing on high protein snacks that are simple, delicious and made for real life. Jayne previously founded employee experience platform Talivest, which raised over €3 million in its lifetime (from some very big named investors) and was acquired by the Australian tech company Go1 in 2022. In this chat, Jayne talks about: Why she’s turning her back on the business “holy grail” of SAAS, and getting in... | 1h 05m 44s | ||||||
| 3/9/26 | Building Silicon Republic: How Ann O’Dea Built One of Ireland’s Leading Tech Media Companies | Ann O’Dea joins Business Builders for a wide-ranging conversation about entrepreneurship, technology, artificial intelligence, and building a media business at the dawn of the internet. As co-founder of Silicon Republic, Ann helped launch one of Ireland’s leading technology news platforms at a time when almost nobody was reading news online. Advertisers didn’t believe in digital media, the audience was tiny, and the future of the internet was still uncertain. Instead of waiting for the market... | 1h 06m 01s | ||||||
| 3/2/26 | John Teeling: The Man Who Helped Revive Irish Whiskey | John Teeling joins Business Builders for a candid, wide-ranging conversation about risk, resilience, and the 20-year bet that helped revive Irish whiskey. When John entered the industry in the 1980s, Irish whiskey had fallen to under 2% of the global market. Consolidated into a struggling monopoly and written off by many, it looked like a declining category. Instead of walking away, he built. From buying a shuttered chemical plant in Dundalk and installing second-hand pot st... | 1h 22m 50s | ||||||
| 2/23/26 | The business of saving lives – Evelyn Kelly on how Orphan Drugs actually reach patients | Evelyn Kelly joins Business Builders for a powerful conversation about rare disease medicine, scaling a global consultancy, and what it really means to build a business with purpose. From starting at her kitchen table in 2017 with no formal plan, to growing Orphan Drug Consulting from €250,000 to €5 million in just four years, Evelyn shares how she built a specialist pharma consultancy that has helped over 70 companies launch medicines in more than 100 countries. But this isn’t just a growth ... | 59m 40s | ||||||
| 2/16/26 | Michelle Walshe: The Summer That Nearly Broke Our €50M Business | Michelle Walsh joins Business Builders for a grounded, honest conversation about scaling a family business, navigating relentless growth, and learning the hard lessons that only come from being in the arena. From unexpectedly stepping into a food manufacturing business straight off a flight home, to helping grow RibWorld from €7 million to nearly €50 million in turnover, Michelle shares what it really takes to lead through expansion, crisis, and eventual exit. Over nine intense years, she hel... | 1h 24m 15s | ||||||
| 2/9/26 | Dying With Your Best Work Inside You: Philip McKernan on Success, Meaning, and Regret | Philip McKernan joins Business Builders for a powerful conversation about success, identity, money, and the quiet cost of living a life that isn’t fully aligned with who you are. Rather than framing success as growth, scale, or financial achievement, Philip challenges the idea that more money or momentum will ever resolve a deeper sense of unease. Drawing on his work with entrepreneurs, athletes, and leaders around the world — as well as his own experience of losing everything — he explores w... | 1h 13m 56s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | The Winner Effect: Neuroscientist Ian Robertson on How Confidence Works | Neuroscientist and psychologist Ian Robertson joins Business Builders to unpack what confidence really is, how it shapes success, and why it can quietly turn against the very people it helps elevate. Ian is Emeritus Professor at Trinity College, Dublin and author of two best-selling books: How Confidence Works: the new science of self-belief. Penguin The Winner Effect: the science of success and how to use it. Bloomsbury Rather than treating confidence as optimism or self-belief, Ian explain... | 53m 14s | ||||||
| 1/26/26 | How Sam Moffett Built a Global Business from Rural Ireland (Moffett Automation) | Sam Moffett, founder of Moffett Automation, shares what it really takes to build a world-class, high-stakes business where failure simply isn’t an option . From growing up inside a family manufacturing company in rural Ireland to delivering fully automated warehouse systems for some of the world’s biggest operators. Sam explains the fundamental shift from selling products to selling outcomes, and why, in his world, customers don’t care about features - they care about certainty. When a wareho... | 59m 15s | ||||||
| 1/19/26 | From the Tools to the Top: How Tim Sparsis Built a Scalable Attic Business | Tim Sparsis, founder of The Attic Company, shares an honest account of what it really takes to grow a trade business from the ground up — from arriving in Ireland with an old van and borrowed money to building a company that now delivers hundreds of projects every year. Tim talks openly about the early days of doing everything himself, the fear of hiring when cash was tight, and the moment he realised that staying “on the tools” was holding the business back. He explains why scaling meant goi... | 52m 43s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | What Is ‘Enough’? Pádraig O'Céidigh's Lessons from a Life in Business (Aer Arann) | Business leader and entrepreneur Pádraig O’Céidigh shares a deeply reflective conversation on success, stress, and the question most people never stop to ask: what is enough? Drawing on decades of experience in business and life, Pádraig speaks candidly about decision-making under pressure, the hidden cost of ambition, and why many of the richest people he knows are not happy. He introduces the idea of a personal “safe harbour” — a way of making life and business decisions that prioritise pe... | 1h 25m 28s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | From Zero Customers to a €200m Business: Nick Keegan’s Startup Story (Mail Metrics) | Mail Metrics co-founder Nick Keegan shares a raw and revealing account of what it really takes to survive the early years of a startup — from three years with no customers to building one of Ireland’s largest customer communications businesses through bold pivots and high-risk acquisitions. Nick speaks candidly about the naïve mistakes made at the start, burning through investor capital, letting staff go, and being months from running out of cash — before a single RFP became the lifeline tha... | 1h 08m 06s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 | What Nobody Tells You About Growing a Company with Tom Rowan (Rowan Engineering) | Tom Rowan, founder of Rowan Engineering, shares a grounded and refreshingly honest account of how he built a forensic engineering and environmental consultancy from one customer and no grand plan into a 30-person business working with insurers, public bodies, and major Irish organisations. Rather than chasing hype or overnight success, Tom explains how his ambition evolved gradually — from simply replacing his salary, to hitting €250k, then €1 million, and beyond. Along the way, he reflects ... | 49m 05s | ||||||
| 12/8/25 | From Redundancy to Europe-Wide E-Commerce: Daniel Plewman (Happythreads) | After losing his engineering job during the 2008 crash, Daniel Plewman found himself unemployed, on the dole, and unsure what came next. A chance moment — his wife struggling to source quality scrubs from the US — sparked the idea that would eventually become Happythreads, an e-commerce scrubs and healthcare uniform business now operating across Ireland, the UK, France, Spain, Germany and beyond. In this episode, Danny shares how he built Happy Threads from a spare room in Stoneybatter, goin... | 49m 28s | ||||||
| 12/1/25 | Building the World's Largest Betting Company with Stewart Kenny, Co-Founder of Paddy Power | Former Paddy Power co-founder Stewart Kenny shares a brutally honest account of how he built — and then left — the world’s biggest betting company. From his father’s influence and early fascination with risk to the creation of Paddy Power’s fearless marketing, Stewart speaks candidly about success, addiction, ethics, and why he ultimately left the industry he helped define. 🎧 In this episode, you’ll learn: – How Paddy Power became a cultural phenomenon – The marketing mindset that reshaped b... | 56m 45s | ||||||
| 11/24/25 | An MBO, Scaling through Acquisition and Managing Risk with Niall Jones (AIR Group) | Niall Jones, co-owner of Anglo Irish Refrigeration, joins host Conor Kearney to share his journey from redundancy to running a €30M+ business. In this episode, Niall gets candid about the personal risks of buying a company, the adrenaline of nonstop growth, and how culture—not spreadsheets—has become his most powerful business tool. If you’re interested in acquisitions, scaling SMEs, or what it really takes to grow a service-heavy business, this is an essential listen. | 50m 06s | ||||||
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