Josh started planning a cannabis shop in 2016 but partnered with a woman who owned a struggling coffee shop on Pico Boulevard instead. They merged the two ideas and grew the coffee business together.
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Tell me about your business. How did you get started? I started in, like, 2016. I originally started off as a cannabis shop. You know what I'm saying? Oh, wow. I had a cannabis shop. I actually partnered up with a lady on Pico in 2016. She had a coffee shop. Her coffee shop was kind of like, like, on edge. It wasn't doing so well. So I came up with this idea with her that, you know, I could make her coffee shop flourish. You know what I mean? I'm like, I can make your coffee shop, your clientele grow. And she was like, what you mean? I broke it down to her. You know how I have this idea of this cannabis shop, you. This fictitious business paperwork that I had that would allow me to sell it, you know, in a municipal type of way, you know? So she kind of like, really the one that got me started, really, in coffee, because she already had the basic set coffee shop. I didn't really have a coffee shop. I just was looking for a building to pretty much do cannabis. But when I seen her shop and seeing the struggles of her, I'm like, but me and her, we were so cool anyway. I'm like, well, maybe we can merge and do something together.
