Episode description

"After the tour, I started meeting with him regularly to do Harley trips, and over a bottle of whiskey we both talked about doing something together, starting a business ... Let’s make a coffee machine that’s connected, that uses your patent."

If you're into coffee, you may own a variety of equipment: grinder, coffee dripper, french press, an expresso machine .. what if it could all be replaced by one, smart machine?

Roderick de Rode is making it a reality with his Spinn machine. (Check out the video)

He got his first investment at Rockefeller Plaza; an investment banker there gave him $25K.

In the past, Roderick has successfully built and managed $100M+ businesses in hardware, software and online services.

We talk about the machine, entrepreneurship, and, of course, the second most traded commodity in the world, coffee:

• How they evolved the idea from a patent into a soon to be retail machine
• The downside to Keurig machines
• The second and third wave of coffee
• Why the machine will sync with local coffee roasters
• The upcoming crowdfunding campaign
• Why hardware is .. hard
• A brilliant gamification strategy for their audience (take notes)
• The invaluable learnings from their hardware advisory team
• Looking back what he would have done differently
• Roderick's advice for food startups

Selected links from the show:
Spinn Coffee
PCH International
highway1.io
Juicero