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tomasmazettion Wheelys Café closes $2.5MM seed round

good. Now, why don't tell us where you will fight, happy bones?!

tomasmazettion Wheelys Café closes $2.5MM seed round

Maria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzJWmYNRUs

tomasmazettion YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

But it's not up to us. It's like someone who charges an electrical car with a diesel engine. How could Tesla police that? They would need thousands of private investigators, and we all know the quality of work of private investigators.

tomasmazettion YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

Thanks! We applied and they must have liked SOMETHING, though it is beyond us what. The plan is to build better and better bikes. No more, no less.

tomasmazettion YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

We LOVE people to hang out. The point is that most young people don't have access to the $ 500 000 it costs to open a Starbucks in a big city.

tomasmazettion YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

You are rightm but we can use Biogas in the burners, since the amount of fuel is negligeble compared to an engine. It is not avalible in all places yet though.

tomasmazettion YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

You are warmly welcome!

tomasmazettion YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

Swedish people are not famous for spelling (or for anything else).

tomasmazettion YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

Even if you serve the most fair trade ultra organic coffee there is, it doesn't cost you more than 30 cent per cup (Most cafés spend 10 cents. You sell that cup for $ 2, or more, since this is 2015 in San Francisco, and the world is mad.

tomasmazettion YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

Oh, was that you? I thought it was some hired hipster!

tomasmazettion YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

Rent and costs has spiralled in the big cities, meaning that a customer that sits half a day with a laptop costs Starbucks money. Starbucks profit is in Take Away. Every customer at Wheelys is a take away customer.

tomasmazettion YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

Hi, my name is Tomas Mazetti. I'm one of the founders of Wheelys. I also like the outdoors, though not unreasonable so. I am from Sweden, home of the swedes.