I Left Wall Street To Start A Coffee Business—Now It Brings In $3 Million A Year

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I Left Wall Street To Start A Coffee Business—Now It Brings In $3 Million A Year


Despite being a child of Kenyan coffee farmers, it took a trip to America, an MBA at Harvard and a short stint in investment banking for Margaret Nyamumbo, 36, to realize she could build a profitable coffee business while giving back to the sort of farms that raised her. In 2023, her business Kahawa 1893 sold more than $3 million worth of…

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  1. Baba, very very proud of you. Totally get the part where you said coffee / tea farming was an embarrassing occupation. Been through that. Thanks for being the flag bearer

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  6. Of course your 36 of course 18 9 3 of course you re …… selling crap which burns adrenals out and makes one illusion that they get energy while exhausting themselves and of course you “empower” exploited women

  7. The QR code is brilliant! I run a passion business to save homeless dogs and cats and I just put a portion of sales will be donated to animal shelters on my website, but this is way more genius.. It gives the customer a hands-on involvement in charity

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    I reached out to her and investing with her has been amazing. I paid off my $529k 2.125% 15 years loan in 8 months. Now totally debt free with 2 paid off rentals. Love having no debt for the last 5 months. Thank you SARAH JENNINE DAVIS

  9. Yipes! I'm an American coffee lover living in Germany. After seeing this video I immediately got on line to check about ordering this coffee for me here in Germany. Holy s***! I know from my last visit back to the States last October that prices for so many things are significantly higher than I remember from when I last lived there. Especially groceries. I'm sad to say I won't be ordering any of this coffee, though I'd love to try it. Here's why:

    We buy our coffee from a local Kaffee Rösterrei in Aachen, Germany. Actually, it's one of the oldest coffee roasters in Germany. Prices here have also climbed significantly in the past few years, though seemingly not as much as in the U.S. Today I pay €12.95 ($13.88) for 500g. The best price I found on line for Kahawa 1893 was €238.79 ($256.00) for 6 12 oz packages. That's just more than 2 kg. Two kilograms for me from my local roaster costs €51.80 ($55.53). So, do I pay $55.53 for 2 kg of very good coffee from my local roaster, or do I pay $256.00 for Kahawa 1893? Hmmmm? Is all coffee in the U.S. this expensive now? —- Note: The price I found on line is no where near the price you mentioned in this video ($16-20 for 12 oz.) which is not that old. So, using an average of $18 / 12 oz, it'd come to $108 per 2 kg. Not as bad, but still significantly more than we pay for good coffee here. Perhaps the price I found for buying your coffee in Germany was because of additional shipping and customs duties, plus the European VAT. I guess I'll need to wait for my next visit to the States to try your coffee out.

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  11. Your coffee site doesnt detail the path of money when it comes to the tips. Im quite skeptical because you just tip but there is no explanation on where the money goes to and how it is then DIRECTLY distributed to the workers, not the farm owners, the workers themselves. Can you please provide more detail on this?