As a child, Rory O’Connor can remember sitting in his grandmother’s shop in Wexford, watching how she dealt with customers and suppliers. It was not something he thought too much about, until he recently met with an academic researching the nature of entrepreneurship. The researcher had a theory: entrepreneurship often skips a generation so there is a close correlation between the business motivations of grandparents and grandchildren. For O’Connor, the founder and chief executive of delivery management software company Scurri, it made a lot of sense. “I remember sitting in the shop with my grandmother and customers coming in and…
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