Ten minutes after Ronan Murdock and Brendan Kavanagh met, they were business partners. Murdock had been assured that Kavanagh could drive the technology leg of an educational start-up offering online grinds for Leaving Cert students at an affordable rate. A 2022 ESRI study suggested nearly three in five of them were availing of grinds and the figure now is likely higher. Murdock, a long-time grinds teacher implied that he was more tech savvy than he was but the entrepreneur in Kavanagh, CEO of learning tech company Olive Group, could see the potential before they finished a cup of coffee. More…