Founder Secrets with Taylor and Flaviu

Maggie Xue on Building the Blue Bottle of Tea and Fundraising


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Maggie started Us Two Tea in 2020 with the vision of reinventing Asian tea and bringing a modern, tasty, healthy, and sustainable product to the market. We also each shared a few stories of raising money early on from angels vs. VC.

(2:35) Us Two Tea Story

(4:01) What does it meant to be an Asian Owned Tea Brand

(5:44) Challenge of importing tea from China

(7:08) How UsTwoTea became Google’s tea

(8:06) The Blue Bottle of Tea

(9:41) The biggest challenge for Maggie right now?

(11:27) Talking to 100 customers

(13:22) How having $100 Million would change UsTwo Tea

(14:48) Stories of first investors and lessons learned

(17:14) Taylor’s investor stories

(19:21) EGO and how to process seeing TechCrunch founders raising $200+ Million

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Founder Secrets with Taylor and FlaviuBy Flaviu Simihaian & Taylor Trusty