Pete Smyth is on the far side of a huge wooden table in Hilton House, the home of his investment company Broadlake. It was the same table I had sat at in 2019 with my friend Ian Kehoe when we pitched to him and his colleague, Brian Crowley, our idea for a new online business publication. Back then, what became The Currency did not even have a name, but Smyth and Crowley heard us out. They asked us encouraging, yet insightful, questions, rather than grilling us as part of our application to join that year’s Entrepreneur Experience, a 24-hour programme…

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