MASTERS speaks to one of the OrderMe founders: co-founder Floris Visser. OrderMe is an app that allows you to order your drink easily via your phone.
Raising your hand and not being seen by the staff is annoying, right?! The three gentlemen of this start-up have apparently experienced this too often, so they came up with something new: OrderMe. An app that allows you to easily order and pay for your food and drinks via your smartphone, by simply scanning a QR code. MASTERS spoke to one founder of the OrderMe triangle: co-founder Floris Visser.Text: Patrick Stoffer
Image: Floris Visser Due to the Corona crisis, a day on the terrace or dinner in a restaurant looks slightly different for all of us than we are used to. The rules and measures do not always make it easy for the catering industry, but this is how new ideas are born. Floris Visser, Dex Holman en Roderick Schuller had to wait just a little too long for their drink and came up with an app that allows you to scan a QR code via your smartphone and easily order your food or drinks in the catering industry. Easy, fast and above all extremely efficient. MASTERS spoke to the young co-founder OrderMe: Floris Visser (26).
What are your hobbies/what do you do besides entrepreneurship?
“In addition to working on OrderMe, I have recently started to delve more and more into the wine world. For example, I am involved in a beautiful vineyard in the north of Spain called Mas Fuertes. This is an idyllic, small and unique vineyard that produces beautiful wines. I am currently working on marketing the wines for Mas Fuertes on the Dutch market.
Besides wine and OrderMe, I am always busy organizing events, such as small parties or drinks. I also like to enjoy myself, like sitting on the terrace with friends and I have various hobbies such as sports, cooking and flying.”
What is your personal USP?/What distinguishes you from other entrepreneurs?
“I think there are two things that distinguish me from other entrepreneurs. Firstly, my creative, yet critical view of problems and issues. As a result, I am not over-optimistic, but I also look critically at my creative solutions. I think the second thing that sets me apart is that I can remain very calm regardless of the situation and can put things into perspective. I can't really remember any real moments of stress. By always looking at the situation calmly, putting it into perspective and tackling it rationally, things usually turn out fine.”
What can the older generation of entrepreneurs learn from you?
“I think the older generation of entrepreneurs can learn from me how to work more efficiently. What I now experience a lot with the older entrepreneurs that I speak to or that I have worked with is that they often stick to the old way, while nowadays there are so many tools and tricks to work more efficiently and better. If old entrepreneurs can combine their experience and expertise with the contemporary possibilities of technology and tools, I think that will make them even more successful.”
Who is your mentor or source of inspiration in the field of entrepreneurship?
“Partly from my family, where my father is an entrepreneur through and through. This has certainly given me the inspiration, ambition and enthusiasm to be an entrepreneur. I also get a lot of inspiration from figures such as Elon Musk. I find it fascinating how he got to where he is now and how he was able to create it all, which is truly unique.”
What is your motto or quote?
“I don't have a real quote, but I do believe that everything you do, do it to the best of your ability.”
What is the biggest entrepreneurial risk you have taken so far?
“I think I will work full-time with OrderMe. This was a fairly impulsive decision. I had just finished my thesis, still had to defend it and the obvious option around you is to apply. Once we had a little bit of traction from COVID, we decided we should just give it a try and see where the ship falls. Without really doing research or weighing the pros and cons, which was a big risk. Especially because we had to create a product in the software area, which neither of us had any knowledge of.”
Where will you be in 3 years?
“I'm never really into looking ahead to where I will be in 1, 3, 5 or 10 years. As I also wrote in my motto, in 3 years I want to be able to look back on the things I have done and say, yes, I did that to the best of my ability and I learned a lot from it. Only time will tell where or what exactly that was.”
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