Q So you moved out when you were how young, from Chennai?
A No, no, I was born in the U.S. Born and brought up there. So I grew up in Wisconsin. Um, I went to college in New York. Uh, that's kind of where I started drinking Starbucks coffee because it was available and kind of, you know, it was never for enjoyment, it was just to have something to stay awake. So I was there for four years, studied finance, moved to San Francisco. Uh, and I was there when specialty coffee was really taking off and becoming the mainstream coffee culture. Then I started, uh, going to these coffee shops. I started understanding that coffee could be more than a functional beverage. Where it comes from, how it's roasted, how it's brewed, can open up a wide variety of flavor. Then I started, uh, roasting coffee as a hobby. But I did that for a number of years, uh, worked in, uh, finance.
AI assessment note: “No, no, I was born in the U.S. Born and brought up there.”