Driven, intelligent but unknowable: What is Paddy Cosgrave really like?

In the space of one evening, Cianan Brennan tries to get to know the tech multimillionaire Paddy Cosgrave

Web Summit CEO and founder Paddy Cosgrave delivers a speech on the opening day of the Web Summit in Lisbon on  Tuesday. Picture: Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images

I spent four hours in Paddy Cosgrave’s company this week. Having ruminated on the assignment, I decided the question I wanted to try and answer was: “Is he knowable?” 

That is to say, clearly, the 39-year-old multi-millionaire has a personality — he has a wife and child, a second son on the way next year, and a formidable business empire. But is it possible for the public to know him better? Or does he only give out what he wants to?