How One Football Game Created an Entrepreneur – Victoria Liu of Byppo
On September 7, 2018, Victoria Liu, founder of UF Innovate | The Hub resident Byppo, went to her first football game where the University of Florida was playing Kentucky. She never had any interest in sports, but she knew she had to attend one game before she graduated.
“Because I didn’t know what was going on in the game, I started thinking far into the distance and thinking, who else has this problem that I’m facing? Where they’re hungry, they’re thirsty, they can’t get something to eat, they don’t wanna stand in line, and the people who care and know what’s going on in the game, they must really not want to leave their seat,” Victoria said.
Liu thought of the idea of creating an app that could make food ordering more convenient at concession stands. That December, Collin Austin spoke in Lui’s entrepreneurship class. Feeling inspired, she decided she was going to start a business.
In March of 2019, she created Byppo, an online ordering app that aims to change the world by making food ordering easier.
She had no idea how to develop an app, so she went to UF’s entrepreneurship center and was connected with James Gibson, the founder of Quottly. She wanted to develop the app right away, but instead, Gibson guided her to first go to her customers and see if her idea could solve their problem.