Charles Crowley

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

The real priority should be the establishment of an Irish ISA, removal of deemed disposal, & cutting of CGT.

[Charlie Weston @CWeston_Indo]

Inheritance tax shake-up planned for Budget that ‘rewards a hard day’s work’ https://t.co/4H4h3m8FSu

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

A note to all Irish politicians: This is how you should react when an innovative company like @MannaAero, led by @realBobbyHealy, invests in your community.

[Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell @LtGovPinnell]

A year ago I had dinner with Bobby Healy, the CEO of Manna, and told him why Oklahoma should be home for their company. Well, welcome to Oklahoma! The future of flight has officially landed in our state.
This week’s launch of Manna’s first full-scale metropolitan U.S. drone delivery operation in Tulsa is another reminder that Oklahoma isn’t just keeping up with innovation; we’re leading it.
We’re proud to be America’s proving ground for the next generation of aerospace and advanced mobility.
Check out the Tulsa World article: https://t.co/haTVB0grlk

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

There’s really only one policy that matters this term: landing the Savings and Investments Union and the roughly €800bn a year in capital formation Draghi called for.
Everything else is admin. This is the economy.
🇮🇪🇪🇺

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

The US economy is now over 40% bigger than the EU. Europe gets just 5% of global venture capital, versus 52% in the US and 40% in China. That’s the growth and innovation gap the Draghi Report exists to close. Ireland holds the EU Council Presidency now. Forget the summit photo.

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

Happy Fourth of July #USA250

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” -Thomas Jefferson. #IndependenceDay

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

An incredible achievement for the team of @fin_ai a rare Irish (USA in reality) unicorn.

[Eoghan McCabe @eoghan]

We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027.

Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation just weeks ago. We were a darling of the SaaS era and invented so many of the patterns you see in software today. Nearly four years ago, in need of a reboot, we jumped on weeks-old modern LLMs to create and define the category we know as Customer Agents today.

Salesforce invented modern software and SaaS. And @benioff is like the final boss of tech founder CEOs. In seat for 27 years, he’s one of the last of his era. Still pushing, pivoting, placing big bets. It’s a privilege for @destraynor and I to get to partner with him and join forces with Salesforce upon close at this most fascinating time. And will be very fun to get their help bringing Fin to magnitudes more consumers.

To our customers: Over the past few years we’ve been shipping intensely. Including recently our groundbreaking model, Apex, and our paradigm-defining internal agent, Operator. With the resources of Salesforce this will only accelerate. And yet little will practically change. I’ll still be CEO, Des will still be running R&D, we’ll both still be committed to continuing to lead this category. Thank you very sincerely and deeply for your belief in us.

To all of our friends, our families, and our employees, past and present: While this is not the end, it is a major, pivotal, special, and emotional moment for us. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. For everything.

To my cofounders, my exec team: Look what we built. Four young lads with a dream and nothing to lose. And a home grown exec team who pulled off the greatest and arguably only late stage software company pivot to AI, and invented one of the most important categories in AI. Thank you for sticking through all of this with me.

And now, time to get back to work. See you at our next product launch in a couple weeks. (:

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

Celebrating 250 years of US independence 🇺🇸🇮🇪

Delighted to join @IrishUSAlumni for a thoughtful discussion on the shared heritage & enduring partnerships between Ireland and the United States. Here’s to the next 250 years of friendship and collaboration. #USA250

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

Good to hear from the Taoiseach. CGT needs to be cut, and tax free allowance needs to be raised from the pitiful €1,270.

[Business Post @businessposthq]

Capital gains tax should be slashed to encourage more Irish people to invest, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.

https://t.co/92mPU2zObk

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

@SophieMcDLaw Agreed, but we first need to get rid of Deemed Disposal and get ETFs taxed at CGT not 38%

[Mona @Mona_Nez]

We need Irish government to publicly support our revolution:
@HMcEntee, @SimonHarrisTD, @MichealMartinTD, @OCallaghanJim
and @CarrollJennifer
We need your support now.
The Islamic Republic Regime is mass killing our people and silencing us with an internet blackout.
Please see us.
Please don’t look away.
#DigitalBlackoutIran
#IranRevolution2026
#FreeIran

https://t.co/V5AJ4Z4HZr

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

Hang it in the Louvre!

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Excellent piece by @collision on some of Ireland’s most acute challenges: https://t.co/HlBlsuAdG2.

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

OECD’s latest tax rankings: corporations get fairness, individuals get punished. Wish Ireland was the tax haven they say it is. #OECD #TaxFairness

[Tax Foundation @TaxFoundation]

🎉 The new rankings are in!

🌎 2025 International Tax Competitiveness Index

➡️ https://t.co/pijI22HLGJ

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

I’m hoping that Jack Chambers drops the deemed disposal rule for ETFs, like he dropped Jim Gavin during the RTE interview. #Budget2026

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

This is the part of the Documentary on Micheál Martin’s time in power, when Pat Leahy narrating say “Jim Gavin did what all the FF backbenchers couldn’t, he ended Micheál’s 14 years as leader” while Zoe Keating’s The Path plays in the background. https://t.co/CPDb9Sinqh

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Breaking: Fianna Fáil’s presidential election candidate Jim Gavin has withdrawn from the presidential election after a bruising week on the campaign trail. https://t.co/pZl2hAvAwD

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

Great event on AI at the @dalkeybookfest with @PatKennyNT @_KarenHao @destraynor

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

So Northern Ireland has access to the EU customs Union and enjoys a U.S. tariff rate of 10% vs the EU rate of 20%. I suspect Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič will be reviewing Windsor Framework in the coming weeks.

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

Irish (EU) tariff rate - 20% vs Northern Ireland (UK) tariff rate - 10%

We have 2016 Brexit customs union issue all over again.

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

The clear winners from these Tariff announcements are Indirect Tax Departments at the Big4 Accounting Firms.

[Charles Crowley @CharlesCrowley_]

Ireland needs to acknowledge Trump will seek to reduce our trade surplus with the U.S. and the easiest way of doing this is by fast tracking the Shannon LNG terminal. In 2023 29.4% of our energy supply was gas. Importing U.S. LNG is key to addressing this concern.