Michael Horvath is an exceptional founder. A former professor of economics at Stanford and the chief executive of a venture capital backed start-up that is profitable, he breaks the mould of every ‘tech bro’ stereotype. Strava, the fitness tracking app, was established in 2009 in Palo Alto and now has 99 million registered users. Closer to Ireland, Horvath’s reveals it has chosen Dublin as the location for its new European headquarters, where it will double its workforce from 12 to 25 by the end of this year. But that is just the beginning. “We see Dublin as a great place to…

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