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“PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE AT CAFÉS. PEOPLE HAVE DEEP AND IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS IN CAFÉS.

Through the interview I find him a thoughtful and intelligent man, and the story of how he built up Blue Bottle at the height of Starbucks'.

James Freeman, the soft-spoken founder and CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee, shares his entrepreneurial journey from the farmers' market where he learned commerce.

Blog:: James Freeman started Blue Bottle Coffee as a side hustle and the company has grown from a single espresso cart to 40 locations.

James Freeman, the soft-spoken founder and CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee, shares his entrepreneurial journey from the farmers' market where he learned commerce in.

Blue Bottle founder James Freeman brought craft coffee to Northern California in the early s, and as he grew his then fledging business, he wanted each.

THEY MEET PEOPLE THEY MIGHT MARRY OR GO INTO BUSINESS WITH, OR BOTH, SO IT’S A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY.”

“I feel like serving coffee is a moral act. It needs to be taken very seriously,” says James Freeman, founder of Oakland-based artisanal roaster Blue Bottle Coffee.

To understand just how seriously Freeman takes it, look no further than his blossoming coffee empire.

Started in 2002, Blue Bottle has expanded to more than 26 cafés (found everywhere from San Francisco’s Ferry Building to New York’s Rockefeller Center) and multiple roasteries in the United States and Japan. Speaking on the phone from the brand’s Oakland headquarters, Freeman is readying to jump on a plane bound for Tokyo with his wife and children to celebrate the opening of the Shinjuku café, situated inside the busiest train station in the world.

Freeman’s love of Japan is no secret; since early 2015, three Blue Bottle Coffee café