E302 That Great Business Show - The banks said no. The ramen got funded. Niall O'Grady, Linked Finance & Kevin Hughes, Nomo Ramen

The banks said no. The ramen got funded.

On Episode 302 of That Great Business Show with Conall Ó Móráin, we follow the money. Real money. SME money. The stuff every founder wants, needs, chases, curses and occasionally dreams about.

Niall O’Grady, CEO of Linked Finance, explains how the company has put more than €400m into more than 5,000 Irish SMEs — and why speed matters when a business owner spots an opportunity. With him is Kevin Hughes, founder of Nomo Ramen in Dublin, who left a tech career, spent years obsessing over ramen, made hundreds of test bowls at home, was told “no” plenty of times, and still built the business.

This is not theory. This is not “thought leadership.” This is money, noodles, risk, graft, landlords, lenders and the glorious madness of Irish SMEs.

Hire in a Heartbeat: Kevin chooses Ivan Orkin, the New Yorker who became a ramen success in Tokyo and helped open up the secretive world of ramen recipes. Niall chooses John Teeling — and, even better, his grandmother Winifred Clifford, who ran a business in Clones and could apparently negotiate the legs off Hector Grey’s table.

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