When Oisin Hanrahan stepped down as CEO of Angi, the Nasdaq-listed home services firm, in late 2022, he took some time off to decompress. In 2018, Angi had acquired Hanrahan’s start-up Handy, a platform founded in 2011 where people could hire the likes of plumbers and carpenters. Just three years after the acquisition, Hanrahan was running the whole show. But after more than a decade in the home services business, from start-up to corporate, Hanrahan let go of the reins. The Dublin-born entrepreneur told The Currency that after the acquisition, he didn’t anticipate he would stick around to run the…

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