Fed up with waiting in long lines for drinks at music festivals, Daniel Coen set out to create a tech solution for the problem… and Skippio was born. The entrepreneur tells George Morahan about his early live testing of the app, how he’s raised funding and why he’s convinced it will be a global success
Daniel Coen tactfully explains that he was attending “a music festival in Leinster” when he came up with the idea for a start-up to help venues across Ireland speed up their drinks service.
The Skippio founder and chief executive was stuck queueing for 40 minutes and missed “all the best acts” while other punters gave up and decided to leave the site for a few pints in the local pubs.
Queues at concerts, sports events and festivals are a common problem.
When Coen conducted his initial research, queues were named as the biggest complaint, and missing an event due to queuing was the …