David Coallier is beaming when he appears on a Zoom call. Three days before we spoke, he had quietly launched his latest venture, Clearword, and 211 people had already signed up to seek early access to it. Co-founded with his long-term collaborator, the designer Daire Irwin, Clearword promises to make meetings better by organising, summarising, and making the content of meetings searchable. Best of all, it hopes to allow people to go to less of them. Based between Austria and Cork (pre-lockdown), Coallier’s enthusiasm is infectious. Still only 34, the keen snowboarder is a brilliant engineer who has built and…

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