Conversation with Kent Bakke

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4.8 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the Cat & Cloud podcast! A couple of months ago Chris and our Marketing Team Leader Michael took a trip out to Seattle to hang out with La Marzocco. While there they had the chance to connect with Kent Bakke, their former CEO turned Board Member, and figured they might as well record a podcast! This week's episode is all coffee and espresso geekery; a chat between two friends about their lives in the coffee industry, and Kent’s lifelong obsession with coffee. Listen to this week's episode to hear a little coffee history from the namesake of the KB90, and the man who founded the Bakke Coffee Museum! Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at [email protected] and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/ Cat & Cloud: https://catandcloud.com/ Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: https://chrisbaca.com/ We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with integrity and intentionality. It’s our mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes. The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen! Enjoy!

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? This podcast is a conversation between me and Kent Baki from LaMorzocco.
0:07.8	Kent is, how you describe Kent? Kent's probably the man most responsible for bringing LaMarzocco into the U.S.
0:17.2	Back in the day, he went and took some trips to Italy, kind of discovering espresso machine manufacturers
0:24.0	and found this one really boutique, amazing manufacturer, which was Lamarizoko.
0:29.6	He was so excited about their machines that he decided to set up a distributorship in Seattle to bring them to the U.S.
0:36.9	And the biggest client that they most famously picked up was Starbucks in the early years
0:43.0	when they were growing rapidly and they still use traditional machines.
0:48.9	So he's the person most responsible for outfitting all of those early Starbucks with La Mirzocco lineas.
0:56.1	Kent's been a partner at La Mirzocco for years.
0:58.7	He was formerly the CEO.
1:00.9	I've known him for a long time as a friend in the coffee industry, and we spent the day together.
1:06.5	We were recording at his espresso museum, which is right next door to LaMazocco USA slash LaMazzoco International.
1:14.8	And we were chatting all day.
1:16.6	I should have recorded the whole thing.
1:18.3	And then when we sat down to do the podcast, I was kind of starstruck by Kent.
1:23.2	He's done so many things that I'm really interested in.
1:25.9	So I felt at times I kind of froze up, didn't know what to say.
1:29.0	But really what this is is this podcast is a chat between two friends about various things in coffee and the coffee industry.
1:37.3	It kind of weaves and ebbs and flows.
1:40.4	And I think it's really interesting.
1:43.3	There's not necessarily a through line except for total full-blown
1:47.3	coffee and espresso geekery. So if that's something you might enjoy, which you might, because you're
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