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Guest: James Freeman, Founder and Former CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee
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In this episode, James and Joubin discuss All About Coffee by William Ukers, Oliver Strand, performance anxiety, MongoMusic, farmers’ markets, “first touch” design, Parisian cafés, self-deception, Facebook ads, “great exits,” The Picture of Dorian Gray, “frictionless” coffee, Zeno’s Paradox, Yoda, iced oat lattes, espresso machines, The Devil Wears Prada, Steve Jobs, Angela Duckworth, and sandpaper.
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- (11:20) - Moving into business
- (15:17) - Starting Blue Bottle
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- (21:09) - Food vs. tech in San Francisco
- (23:15) - The coffee shop experience
- (29:18) - Dissatisfaction and bad management
- (33:42) - Exhaustion
- (36:22) - Exit
- (37:39) - Anxiety and falling apart
- (40:31) - Paying the bills vs. the high life
- (44:08) - Visiting Blue Bottle today
- (46:53) - The decision to sell
- (51:35) - Could he have stayed?
- (54:01) - The next coffee shop(s)
- (57:35) - Returning to the ring
- (01:01:39) - What if it works out?
- (01:03:30) - What “grit” means to James
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Guest: James Freeman, Founder and Former CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee
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- (15:17) - Starting Blue Bottle
- (17:55) - “Fun until it wasn’t”
- (21:09) - Food vs. tech in San Francisco
- (23:15) - The coffee shop experience
- (29:18) - Dissatisfaction and bad management
- (33:42) - Exhaustion
- (36:22) - Exit
- (37:39) - Anxiety and falling apart
- (40:31) - Paying the bills vs. the high life
- (44:08) - Visiting Blue Bottle today
- (46:53) - The decision to sell
- (51:35) - Could he have stayed?
- (54:01) - The next coffee shop(s)
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- (01:01:39) - What if it works out?
- (01:03:30) - What “grit” means to James
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