A unicorn is an unlisted start up with an actual or strong potential to be worth more than $1billion. We don't have many here in Ireland, 9 according to TracXn including Workhuman, Lets Get Checked and TransferMate. But according to my next guest Irish unicorn owners and owners of smaller start-ups are selling out 12 times faster than they are being created and with that control and IP usually leaving the country. 

Alan Coleman, from Wolfgang Digital joined Joe Lynam on the show.