ABSTRACT
At Queue-it, we’re often asked how we came up with the idea of inventing the world’s first online queuing system—who invented it, when, why, and so on. The author wishes that the story of the invention had an exotic origin and character, but it doesn’t. In the beginning, the author's co-founders, Niels Henrik Sodemann and Martin Pronk, and the author met in the author's spare time over a period of several months before they started the business. Many other companies have started in this way, so there is nothing unusual about that. Their history differs in that they actually started the process of establishing their own company without having any specific ideas outside of developing software-based cloud computing, the most important megatrend in technology they saw at the time.
