Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Strengthening the Start-up Community: Discussion

2:30 pm

Mr. Sean O'Sullivan:

I will respond to the second question first. I have a son and a daughter. My daughter has had the same personality since she emerged from the womb and we call her the "master commander". She is the ruler of all things. I think there probably is something with which people are born. My son is a completely different and wonderfully laid-back individual. People are almost born into their personalities. It is not a man versus woman thing or whether one is upper class or lower class. It is just something we are born with. It is a human condition element - one of those indefinable human characteristics - which makes somebody an entrepreneur. There are some aspects of that which are innate. I am of the view that those aspects can either be suppressed or celebrated by a society or a culture. I am also of the view that we can accentuate and expand our entrepreneurial culture and that all can benefit from this.

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