Changes
“The only constant is change,” a sentence I’ve probably written half a dozen times over to describe social media but I’m sure it’s been used to describe life, too.
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Community vs industry
Coffee can be both & some more thoughts on private equity in coffee.
Some post-expo thoughts
Unstructured thoughts, two days after Expo, for paid subscribers.
When community is taken advantage of
The stories of three industry veterans who were hired into companies backed by investment money and founded by non-coffee people. Their community ties were extracted, and then they were laid off.
🔎 In Focus: Leaderboard, Part 2
This is a continuation of the In Focus interview sent out last week. It features Suneal Pabari and Grant Gamble, co-founders of Leaderboard, the worldwide mystery coffee game. Paid subscribers receive bonus interview content when there’s too much to fit into the first part.