![]() ![]() In barely seven months, Jim and his wife Rosie (nee Kane, originally from Cornakelly, Moyne) helped put the seal on a $5m 50,000 sq ft equestrian centre in Rock Tavern, some 60 miles north of New York city. Jim is also the driving force behind Cassidy & Sons, a real estate company and is presently working on a 60 storey building for Larry Silverstein, the owner of the World Trade Center.įast forward the best part of two decades, the genial Longfordian is now dipping his toes in the lucrative world of America’s equine industry. His company Cassway Contracting, which specialises in the interior fitting out of high rise buiildings across the New York landscape is worth a cool $25m.īut that’s not all. That was 18 years ago and despite once again running into credit troubles along the way, it was the breakthrough Jim had been desperately yearning for, a lightbulb moment which promulgated him among the who’s who of New York’s rich and famous. I can remember going into Ken’s office and setting out the price for it which came to $1.5m,” he said. “He was the guy that asked me to do my first job and at the time I had four men with me. ![]() “Ken Horne was the guy behind Alchemy Properties on the last job I was on and he took a shine to me I suppose you could say. “I remember I was working for a sub contractor and the job was an absolute disaster.”įor most, the bitter disappointment of yet another career making or in this sense career breaking turn of events would have proved too much, but for Jim his saviour would come courtesy of a man he credits with giving him his first “big break” in business. In keeping with the scores of Irish ex-pats who emigrated to the US, Jim cut his teeth in the transatlantic construction game working as a foreman. ![]() I wanted to go to the US and then Australia after but I’m still here.” “It was an absolute disaster,” recalled Jim, as his focus soon switched to potentially more financially palatable foreign lands. Like most, if not all, fledgling firms, there were difficulties and plenty of them.ĭifficulties in securing payment from farming clients meant the business never took off the way the forward thinking north Longford native had envisaged, resulting in him selling off his machinery and giving into the inevitable. That stint, according to Jim, last “three to four years” before deciding to take his first entrepreneurial punt on setting up a small steel company. “When I left I went to work with Fenelon Engineering and worked for Mick Fenelon, one of the decentest men you could meet.” “It wasn’t my thing,” said Jim, when the topic of studying was put to him. What was, and unequivocally still is, is Jim’s deep seated ambition for success and personal fulfilment. Much of those surrounds carry familiar memories for the son of the late Margaret and Paddy Cassidy and from the assiduous family farm beginnings he grew up on.Ī past pupil of Kiltycreevagh National School, Jim would later go on to enjoy a spell at Moyne Community School.īy his own admission, academia was not Jim’s passion. “I was always a hustler,” said Jim, as he took time out to speak to the Leader from his home in the leafy terrains of Orange County. ![]() Have fun managing your barely-functional Wordpress website and piece of shit game release.Rather, the amiable 46-year-old is all too aware of where those successes came from and just how hard he was made to work for them. If you don't want people playing your game, you're doing a great job. It's not even hard to bypass, it just illustrates how far you'll go to fuck yourself over at the end of the day. You just alienated a gigantic portion of your eventual consumer base. It's suffering because of your dumbass anti-piracy code. So the message I get from this is (a) he doesn't want extra people finding bugs even though the game is currently garbage quality (and at this rate always will be), (b) he wants people to pay for an alpha-quality (at best) release and go fuck yourself if you don't want to, and (c) he's too cheap to pay for real DRM but wants to piss off a bunch of people anyway.īro, your profit margin isn't suffering because of piracy. Tavern Tycoon is still in alpha, and instead of focusing on actually making the game playable (it's currently garbage quality) he devoted his efforts to amateur anti-piracy code that pixelates the screen, making it unplayable. I am never going to buy any of his games. ![]()
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