But first, an Irish woman who died too young:
For traditionalists, you try finding an American pipe band that doesn't insist on playing Scotland the Brave on St. Patrick's Day. For what it's worth the Cranberries and Ms O'Riordan did use a lot of greens in the production of the video
And from Bloomberg:
Stripe Founders John and Patrick Collison Build $23 Billion Fortune With Top U.S. Startup
John and Patrick Collison sold their first company for $5 million when they were still teenagers. A decade or so later, the second business they founded is now worth $95 billion, making it the most valuable U.S. startup.
The latest valuation for Stripe Inc., their online payments processing firm, gives John, 30, and Patrick, 32, a net worth of about $11.5 billion each, putting the two brothers among the richest self-made millennial billionaires in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The valuation figure is at the top of the range Bloomberg News reported in November, when Stripe was in talks with investors. At the time, discussions were for a value of more than $70 billion with the possibility of pushing it as high as $100 billion.
Its current valuation puts it ahead of billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Instacart Inc., according to CBInsights data, and surpasses the market value of publicly traded rivals including Adyen NV, Global Payments Inc. and Fiserv Inc.
The Irish brothers founded Stripe in 2010 after dropping out of college in the U.S. They were previously worth $4.3 billion, according to the wealth index....MORE
The company is headquartered in Dublin wish U.S. headquarters in San Francisco.
I've mentioned my Grandmother's quizzes, here's one from 2013:
The Future Price Trajectory of Copper and Aluminum and the Implications for Oil
In Which Our Hero Explains the Importance of Recent Events and Their Impact on the Cost of Day-to-Day Living
...For me it was how to approach the profit possibilities; much in the same way Grandmother would quiz: "Your initial conditions are 'The sky is falling, the sky is falling', what is your course of action?" to which I'd reply "I'm this many: ||||, four" and she'd say, "No silly, your course of action is 'Short sky'"
She had another one she only brought out for special occasions:
"What's the richest country in the world?"
"Ireland, the capital's been Dublin for years"
I'll see myself out.
