{"id":196042,"date":"2025-11-23T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/196042\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:34:13","slug":"my-job-is-being-a-capitalist-but-im-actually-a-socialist-stuart-mccaul-on-building-a-software-empire-without-selling-his-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/196042\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My job is being a capitalist but I\u2019m actually a socialist\u2019 \u2013 Stuart McCaul on building a software empire without selling his soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The former An Taisce non-executive chair\u2019s Ishikawa Technologies aims to slowly snap up Europe\u2019s software companies \u2013 and hang onto his principles in the process\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ishikawa this year acquired accounting and payroll software firm Big Red Book. 'I\u2019m hoping it will be the best home for European software companies,' says McCaul (pictured)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STUART MC CAUL 5SH.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)\">Ishikawa this year acquired accounting and payroll software firm Big Red Book. &#8216;I\u2019m hoping it will be the best home for European software companies,&#8217; says McCaul (pictured)<\/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)\">When Stuart McCaul shook hands on the deal to buy Irish accounting software firm Big Red Book in April it was the first public step for an ambitious plan of acquisition and consolidation that he has been hatching for some time.<\/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)\">That plan, he says, will see his firm Ishikawa Technologies \u2013  named after a Japanese business guru \u2013 snap up software firms around Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former An Taisce non-executive chair\u2019s Ishikawa Technologies aims to slowly snap up Europe\u2019s software companies \u2013 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,33201,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-196042","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-fearghal-oconnor","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115599276700215120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196042","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=196042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}