Paddy Cosgrove started The web summit conference in 2009 in Bewleys Hotel with a handful of attendees and grew it into a multi-million euro business with 70,000 attendees. He became a millionaire but also began sharing many of his political views in public.

After major sponsors started pulling out one by one, Paddy Cosgrave bit the bullet and quit the company that he founded at the weekend. What can we learn about this? 

Johnny Fallon has been following the story closely and works as a consultant with Carr Communications and joined Joe this morning.