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Niko Papademetriou

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328 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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These days, of course, ordering from kiosks and through DoorDash and so on and so forth.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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There's a never-ending increase of orders

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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order channels that restaurants need to service their customers through.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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And so Q is that modern incarnation of a foundational technology platform helping restaurant chains conduct commerce across all of those channels and whatever's next.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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We have a couple of MVP stakes in the ground in our history.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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You know, that first one, the original one, it's funny.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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It took six or eight weeks and then another couple months of tweaking to get that base level.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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You can put 10 buttons on a screen.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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They can have a word on them called sandwich or glass of wine or whatever.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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And you can tap that button.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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It calculates some tax and creates a running check.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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If you go all the way back to 13 years ago, we had one that did that.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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And I remember the first ever site we put it in.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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Believe it or not, it was a hotel bar at an embassy suites in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the D.C.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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I think they had five beers, maybe three wines by the glass, and they served five barely cooked or almost CPG-like food products.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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It's the next one and the third and the 13th and the 73rd chain that's using your system that becomes exponentially more difficult.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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So it's almost not getting that MVP out the door.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
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That's the hardest part.