A Big Exit, Confidence & Resilience Ciarán Mulligan, Yes Insurance

About this episode

Ciarán Mulligan discusses his journey in building and selling Blue Insurance, the opportunities in crises, and the impact of fatherhood on his view of success.

🔔🔔 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...

People in this episode

Host: Conor Kearney

Guest: Ciarán Mulligan

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• marketing
• resilience
• identity
• surrogacy
• success

Keywords

• entrepreneurship
• Blue Insurance
• Ciarán Mulligan
• resilience
• success
• fatherhood
• marketing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blue Insurance, Yes Insurance

Places: Ireland

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