Marty Neill on Tiny Rooms, Video Games & “Figuring It Out”

Marty Neill is the founder of AirPOS. He’s also an ex-music journalist and avid retro gamer.

In this episode, we talk about:

Leaving school illegally at 15-years-old Building and selling video games as a kid on his Spectrum + 2 How all the best things in his life have come from “tiny rooms” Why you should never fall in love with your business Ideas being the “real currency” How COVID both destroyed and transformed his business Why your business will never love you back The huge opportunities that exist in Belfast And the new Retro Arcade opening in Belfast later this year

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