Top entrepreneur stresses need for large businesses

ENTERPRISE Ireland should be measured on the number of Nasdaq quoted companies created here and not just on job creation, a leading entrepreneur has suggested.

Top entrepreneur stresses need for large businesses

Speaking in Limerick Institute of Technology yesterday, Silicon Valley investor John Hartnett called on the government to focus on creating billion-dollar companies in Ireland.

“We don’t have any multi-billion dollar companies in Ireland today. And what the government can do is put focus and energy on helping entrepreneurial Irish companies to become 100, 200, or 500 billion dollar companies,” he said.

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