{"id":15739,"date":"2025-08-22T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15739\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:12:10","slug":"i-flushed-my-leaving-cert-results-down-the-toilet-entrepreneur-karl-fitzpatrick-on-his-unconventional-path-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15739\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I flushed my Leaving Cert results down the toilet\u2019 \u2013 entrepreneur Karl Fitzpatrick on his unconventional path to success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Karl Fitzpatrick, president of Chevron College\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5b0ad839-f285-45bd-9f63-358dba58d443.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Karl Fitzpatrick, president of Chevron College<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Karl Fitzpatrick was a finalist in this year\u2019s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year competition for his role in achieving monumental success with his online learning platform, but such an achievement was once a pipe dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A native of Cork and a past pupil of Presentation Brothers College, Mr Fitzpatrick (46) received his Leaving Cert results in 1996, but things did not go to plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karl Fitzpatrick, president of Chevron College Karl Fitzpatrick was a finalist in this year\u2019s EY Entrepreneur Of The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,125,12550],"class_list":{"0":"post-15739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-keith-kelly","13":"tag-leaving-certificate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}