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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
8 Oct 2017 Acquired Blue Bottle Coffee
“Arguably even maybe I would say before lots of capital, the sort of modern series A and beyond hyped startup, they raise a venture round and they raise $5 million from a firm called Kohlberg Ventures.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 8 Oct 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Blue Bottle Coffee
Transcript context
…I’ll rip on it for this whole episode but, you know, it’s an unbelievable product. It really is. I mean, you can’t be from Seattle and not appreciate good coffee, and it is very good coffee. So after the kiosk, the first very little store in Hayes opens up. It really starts to take off and spreads kind of by word of mouth. They start to open more locations in the Bay Area, then they go to New York City. They go to Los Angeles and then they go to Tokyo, to Japan and the sort of inspiration for all of it. So there’s stores in all of these cities now. But they start to grow fairly rapidly and in 2008. So this is very early in kind of the rise of sort of the modern startup and VC industry. Arguably even maybe I would say before lots of capital, the sort of modern series A and beyond hyped startup, they raise a venture round and they raise $5 million from a firm called Kohlberg Ventures. And Chris Sacca and Lowercase Capital, this is just when Chris is getting going. That dude gets into everything. Un-freaking-believable the nose on Chris Sacca to find those early-stage.…
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