E210 That Great Business Show - biking holiday platform, GoBike.io, medtech co. Luminate raises $15m, ChatGPT's deliberate pauses

That Great Business Show

E210 That Great Business Show

A biking business that has taken some years to flourish. GoBike.io founder, Ronan Whelan, has spent a couple of years refining his cycling holiday booking platform and now is looking for cycling tour providers to contact him, to check out his site and, ideally, to post holidays on the platform. A bit like mountain cycling, the road to success has been a bit bumpy. Learn from him about hiring a team, maxing available State funding - he also queries whether he needs his business to be global (his target Irish market is 50,000). He announces a new deal with Sunway Holidays.

He'd love Taylor Swift as his 'hire in a heartbeat', as his brand ambassador (and his daughter would be MOST impressed), but failing that he has a soft spot for the lads at Fontaine DC.

We last spoke to Aaron Hannon, co-founder of Luminate Medical, three years ago. His worldbeating product looks like a bicycle helmet, but it's stuffed with medtech inside - making it a boon for the millions who undergo chemotherapy every year, and who lose their hair because of it. Galway based Aaron re-joined TeamGBS on That Great Business Show to announce a $15 million funding, to bring Lily to the world. Lilac is following and then there's Lotus.

He hasn't changed his mind about his 'hire in a heartbeat' since he was last on That Great Business Show. He's plumped for David Hannon aka his dad, again. (And again, and again...)

A week is a long time in AI. On the last episode we were discussing what AI could do to help forecast sales for SMEs. Then we got a call from Mark Kelly, co-funder of Alldus, to tell us that it's all changed. Strawberry has been launched. That's the latest iteration of ChatGPT , the one that 'deliberately' pauses to think of an answer...to make it seem more 'reflective' (they couldn't be that cynical, could they?). As ChatGPT and all of its cousins are going to change your world, you'll just have to listen.

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