Having grown up on a small dairy farm in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, Terry Canning was well aware that dairy cows were vital to his upbringing—but they weren’t meant to be his future.
Instead, Canning was “shipped off to academia,” he tells Fortune, where he studied engineering for four years. After graduation, he worked for a number of computing companies. Then, in 2004 at age 30, Canning decided to return to his family home and set up his own company—developing a software product for managing livestock.
