{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61efc450dc4aa800136f9bc1/635bcd087cf2770011531766?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Web Summit’s Paddy Cosgrave on how to do a live event","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61efc450dc4aa800136f9bc1/1652349028028-afb34cf9ae27d36a7e01c74a642abf67.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Paddy Cosgrave is the co-founder and CEO of Web Summit, one of the biggest live events in the world with more than 70,000 people attending in Lisbon.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This episode contains explicit language.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In this show we talk about:</p><ul><li>How Web Summit “stared business death in the face” during lockdown</li><li>The problem's Elon Musk caused when he appeared there</li><li>What happened when Bono took tech CEOs out on a Dublin pub tour</li><li>How they got Twitter founder Jack Dorsey to appear at one of their early summits</li><li>Why you have to have naysayers telling you “you’re an idiot”</li><li>What to do if you’ve been given the “live events” brief in your company</li></ul><p><br></p><p>For more interviews, news and analysis pick up the Evening Standard newspaper or head over to&nbsp;<a href=\"http://standard.co.uk/business\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">standard.co.uk/business</a>.</p>","author_name":"Evening Standard"}