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Patch is a free summer programme for talented young people who want to work on impactful projects and creative business ideas. Learn more ⬇️ https://t.co/e2RUU4cDVu
Dublin, Ireland
Joined February 2021
@joinpatch_ @jasonkwon @OpenAI @pwlsh Fireside chat with @jasonkwon and Patrick Walsh (@pwlsh). @OpenAI wants to help AI-native startups, young builders and SMEs adopt AI at practical, day-to-day workflow levels.
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from watching the sunrise at golden gate bridge, to demoing https://t.co/lURbp2sWXH for @jasonkwon the next day & ending up on @rtenews, to sitting a college exam 1hr after getting off the plane from SF on a redeye, jetlagged asf... wild 36 hours. loved it. @OpenAI @joinpatch_
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Our SF Fellowship had a fantastic lunch with Patrick today.
Today I had lunch with twelve young Irish people -- a wonderful bunch in their early 20s working on rockets, biotech, software/AI, etc. I enquired about whether any were planning on leaving Ireland over the next 3 years. All hands but one went up. I asked the holdout why he was
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Dervla (21) Doing a masters in ML, Leads UL’s rocketry team with launches to 2.2 km. Jeremy (20) Runs a 3D-printing business with over €50k profit and co-founded TFwind. Alex (22) Led EirSpace. Built Mach-1+ rockets and a 6DOF robotic arm. Runs Patch Robowars.
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Erica (20) Co-developed and patented a biostimulant for Ash Dieback. Now working on commercialising. @AeyyJay (18) BTYS and European Young Scientist winner. Built https://t.co/FfDbo0Rbom and Sceach. Now building an ornithopter. Helps organise Demos Anon with Julian.
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Con (18) 1st year ISE student, won TECS 2024. Founder of ICØN, monetising AI identiies. Vedh (20) UCL student working in bioinformatics and AI for drug discovery. Prev created a rapid malaria test. Abi (20) Co-developed a patented Ash Dieback treatment. Young Scientist winner.
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@julianlewo (19) https://t.co/m1fyriAnOh founder and Patch alum, worked on makerterminal and helps run https://t.co/1Gb7rfkriS Chinaza (21) Led Autonomous team at Formula Trinity Éabha (22) Biomed engineer, improved X-ray sims 10x at DESY.
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We’re in San Francisco this week with an amazing group of young Irish founders, scientists, and engineers. They’re building rockets, medical devices, robots, biostimulants, and more. 🇮🇪 Meet them below 👇
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Announcing Nautilus: A three-month gap program where you get paid –no strings attached– to dive into your craziest, most ambitious project. Yes, you read that right. Come live with us in San Francisco and build the next Renaissance. How it works:
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Introducing: Ulysses. We build autonomous underwater drones for ocean stewardship. We raised an oversubscribed $2m pre-seed led by @lowercarbon @orbuch. We restore seagrass ecosystems in the US and Australia w/ partners like @nature_org. JOIN US - https://t.co/h7UOrXengb
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running a robotics, space and deeptech happy hour in SF on monday. show up :)
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Front door code: #1646 Elevator code: 8956# (Floor 2!) Join SF’s best deeptech and robotics founders. Raw pitch to fellow builders - 60 seconds, no…
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Some of my friends are running a program about applied rationality in Taiwan in February. If you are a curious and analytical person aged 16-19, you should apply. If your friends or loved ones match that description, they should apply
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Ever feel like a big fish in a small pond? It can hold you back without you even realising it. This is why we connect young people with mentors and communities that expand their vision of what's possible:
Let me tell you about one of my biggest mistakes in life, courtesy of @tylercowen. Cowen says one mark of talent is knowing the right status hierarchies to climb. I chose the wrong status hierarchies, though hopefully some of that was not entirely my fault. As a Midwest "farm
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Today on @politico: "A startup from California can expand and raise money all across the United States. But our companies still face way too many national barriers that make it hard to work Europe-wide, and way too much regulatory burden." This is not a quote by me or anyone at
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Coding drives innovation & fuels creativity. Yet, the lack of diversity in programming can reinforce biases & inequalities in the digital world. On Tuesday's first-ever #WorldCodingDay, @UNESCO is calling for a more inclusive digital future. https://t.co/qSwkzzJd3U
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Irish start-ups breaking America: Key lessons from scaling across the Atlantic https://t.co/mjeBUnjgy5 via @businessposthq
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There were plenty of lessons for fledgling entrepreneurs from the likes of Keychain founder Oisin Hanrahan at Irish Start-up Week in New York recently. Connected editor Charlie Taylor was in attend...
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Missing the summer vibes today so we started digging through the photo albums from Patch 2024. So much fun, so little sleep!
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🚀 Over 4,000 students from 352 schools in Ireland have entered 2,069 projects for #BTYSTE2025! Themes include health, climate, AI, and more. 🌍🔬Health projects: 42% 49% of secondary schools participated. See the 550 shortlisted projects in January! #STEM #Innovation
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Get your students to do a 30-second pitch in front of the class on their business idea. 👉 What does the Product/Service do? 👉 What problem does it solve? • 👉 How is it different? 👉 Why should the customer care? This is a great way to get students to refine their pitch!
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