Late-stage VC market update + Terra Kaffe's Sahand Dilmaghani | E1891
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 3 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Today’s show:
Jason kicks off the show with an update on the late-stage VC market (1:44). Then, Terra Kaffe’s Sahand Dilmaghani joins to discuss Terra Kaffe’s super-automatic machines (19:35), scaling the B2C business (29:59), and much more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show!
(1:44) Late-stage VC market update
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(11:49) Sahand Dilmaghani on his decision to start Terra Kaffe
(19:35) Advantages of the Terra Kaffe machines compared to pod machines
(24:29) What is takes for a super-automatic machine to make great coffee
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(29:59) Scaling where the product is viable, offices, schools, multifamily homes
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(36:30) The progress in sales and experience with direct to consumer
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody I was in Miami all week doing meetings. |
| 0:03.4 | It went really well. |
| 0:04.1 | Thanks for asking him. |
| 0:05.3 | But I didn't get a chance to record a new liquidity episode. |
| 0:07.8 | You know, we talk about what's happening in venture and startups |
| 0:11.1 | and with limited partners. |
| 0:12.4 | So, you guys have given me so much amazing feedback |
| 0:16.0 | on the liquidity series that I figured I'd do a little market update |
| 0:19.4 | for you, just a little quick market update. |
| 0:21.1 | And then we have after the quick news hit an amazing |
| 0:24.0 | interview with the CEO of Terra Cafe. How do I know this founder? Well I bought this |
| 0:28.9 | incredible super-deluxe espresso machine that I love. The design was amazing so I wound up investing in the company and we have a great talk about how to build a hardware company, how to have world-class design and just you know the ups and downs of startups right now so this is going to be a |
| 0:43.6 | great show let's get started. This week in startups is brought to you by |
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