Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Congratulations to my friends Michael Smith and Tom Boardman. Their extremely sucessful company, Firebox, is 10 years old today.

What were you doing 10 years ago? I had just left AOL after joining it as a startup, to head for the shores of the UK, where I am now.

To have started a pure online company back then, is truely amazing. It’s one thing for people like me to conjur up great ideas back then, but it’s another to have had the experience and guts to execute them.

Well done guys!

Check out their interview with the BBC, when the company was run from their flat.

I found Tom’s comments regarding the site possibly crashing with 100 concurrent users hilarious. The guy is a genius.

If you’re a Top Cat and coming to the event on the 12th, make sure to say hi to Michael.