Some of the best companies are born from irritants, and for Garret Flower, that irritant was parking. Or more precisely, the absence of it. Driving around Dublin one day, circling for a spot, Flower was struck by a line in a Steve Jobs biography he had recently read: “1000 songs in your pocket.” The thought that followed was swift and catalytic; what if you could put 1,000 parking spaces in your pocket? That idea became Parkpnp, the Airbnb for parking, which grew to over 150,000 users and led to a phone call from a pharmaceutical firm with a very different…

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