Facebook Ireland former boss Gareth Lambe: ‘It gave us the ick, seeing Zuckerberg cosy up to Trump’

With trees, baubles and tinsel, Christmas hasn’t arrived so much as kicked in the door of the usually quiet Dublin city centre hotel lounge where Medihive chief executive and former Facebook Ireland boss Gareth Lambe has agreed to meet me. Festive elevator muzak threatens to overwhelm the voice recorder on the table in front of us. All of this less than two weeks after Halloween. Lambe has been busy since he departed Facebook owner Meta in 2022 after 10 years, most of it spent at the helm of the tech giant’s Irish unit. “I planned it for a long time,” he says of his decision to step down. “I gave them a lot of notice and I took over a year off – a year and four months.” READ MORE Still, the transition must have been difficult. “I was really looking forward to it, but it turns out you can’t just switch the cogs off from working. I probably got a bit impatient for a while. I can tell you, my wife got impatient with me being in the house.” We’re growing our business at 25 per cent year on year, but at the highest gross margins in the industry
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