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Maybe we have different views on what "Silicon Valley" means, but I think of it more in terms of startups than big corp. From what I've seen there is mainly grunt work at large companies for developers in Dublin. Like big corp ships over their latest printing software to be localized for 18 different markets and similar.

I could be wrong, but a quick search for unicorns in Dublin turned up rather empty...

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You must have had poor luck with your Google Search -- heres a few from someone work works in the Irish Dev Scene:

Intercom, Workhuman and CarTrawler and others are in the pipeline like Pointy and Manna. Plenty of Irish software developers -- they also leave Ireland and found companies in other countries like Stripe.

> Plenty of Irish software developers -- they also leave Ireland and found companies in other countries like Stripe.

Geez, the smarminess in this comment - unreal.

2 students who graduated secondary school went to college in usa, lived in usa and started a company called stripe. they were college students who dropped out.

It's like how people claim greatness from some American or European emigre from their country who was able to excel precisely because of the opportunities offered by the West.

I dont use Google. Never heard of any of the companies you posted, but I took a look at the website of the first one (Intercom): "The company was founded in 2011 in San Francisco"...

I'm sure they have some Irish connection, but it's obviusly not a Dublin company.

Product is built in Dublin -- their investment came from the US -- all four founders are Irish. No company at that scale is exclusively a single nationality.

Your Dublin unicorn examples:

* Intercom - Founded in San Fransisco according to themselves.

* Workhuman - Founded 20+ years ago.

* CarTrawler - Founded 30+ years ago.

Not really signs of a "Silicon Valley"-startup/unicorn kind of atmosphere in my book :)

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