Creator Lab Ep.6 - Web Summit Co-Founder Daire Hickey on Building Europe’s Largest Tech Marketplace
Growing from 200 to 50,000 attendees in just 6yrs!
Creator Lab Ep.6 - Web Summit Co-Founder Daire Hickey on Building Europe’s Largest Tech Marketplace launched on October 13, 2016 with 61 votes, #1,033 of 3,690 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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How Paddy, Daire & Dave created Europe's largest technology marketplace: Web Summit - going from 200 to 50,000 attendees in only 6 years.
Daire Hickey was named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his incredible work helping Web Summit grow from 200 to 50,000 attendees in just 6 years to become Europe’s largest tech conference. In this revealing podcast interview, Daire goes into the full story of how The Web Summit started, how they grew the company to start other conferences like Collision Conference, and how he personally helped bring a-list speakers to thefrom creatorlab.fm
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