Emily Beere leads me to Thriftify’s small office through the labyrinth of Ballyfermot Community Civic Centre, a large, modern public building in a Dublin suburb, the look and feel of which gives me the instant impression of going back to school. Maybe it has to do with the early autumn timing of my interview with the chief sales officer and co-founder of the online shopping start-up. The unlikely location for what is now an international tech business illustrates its mission to become a positive part of the community as well as a commercially viable venture. This is very much the…

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