Silicon Valley Coffee is bridging together new tech and roasting coffee, and founders are not letting back-to-back break-ins get them down.
Silicon Valley Coffee is a two-person company founded by Matt Baker and Vance Bjorn — former tech workers.
Their coffee lab is in Menlo Park.
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“Silicon Valley is a lot about data. And yes, you can say this tastes like cherry or this tastes like citrus or something, but a lot of people like to put numbers behind that, too,” Bjorn said.
The lab holds different machines to try out and a table for tasting flights for group events.
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Three weeks ago, they started renovating a massive 6,000-square-foot space in San Francisco – off Fourth Street and Townsend, across from Caltrain.
On Sunday, they discovered two people broke in. Baker found a cellphone left behind.
“I looked at the cellphone and I read text message conversation on how to break into our property,” Baker said.