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A better alternative to big coffee + building the world's most beautiful (and smart) coffee machine with Sahand Dilmaghani, Founder of Terra Kaffe

This helped me kick my two Starbucks per day habits.

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Sahand Dilmaghani, Co founder and CEO of Terra Kaffe, joins the show to talk about

  • Building the worlds most beautiful and intelligent espresso machine, and the process that went into prototyping a better coffee experience.
  • Balancing development for the software user interface and the human machine interface, and the two journeys people take when brewing their coffee.
  • How Terra Kaffe thinks about the competitive landscape in coffee, and how Sahand is approaching partnerships in the coffee category.
  • How Sahand and team are helping reduce ecological waste and helping customers "kick the pods", one cup at a time.

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Sahand Dilmaghani

Founder of Terra Kaffe

Sahand Dilmaghani is the CEO & founder of Terra Kaffe, a cutting-edge espresso machine that transforms the entire experience of making coffee at home. Sahand started out in the corporate world working as an analyst at DC Advisory for two years before joining micro-mobility, Berlin-based startup unu. In 2017 Sahand started Terra Kaffe, which has raised over $14M to date.

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