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RETAIL: Co-Founders Went Through the SDSI Accelerator
It seems fitting for Jack Doheny and Jake Solomon, founders of Bold Brew Coffee, to have first met at a coffee stand.
"Both Jack and I were going to San Diego State University at the time and became really good friends after meeting at the coffee stand at the library," said 23-year-old Solomon, who graduated in May with a mechanical engineering degree.
"I worked at the small coffee stand and that is how I met Jake - by giving him free coffee because he had a great tie-dye T-shirt collection," said Doheny laughing, also 23 and also a May graduate in mechanical engineering.
2017 Launch
It was their shared affection for the naturally caffeinated beverage and their mutual desire to start their own businesses that led the pair, who also have a love for action sports in common, to become friends and then link up professionally. In 2016, when Solomon presented the idea to Doheny to launch an all-natural energy drink that had no sugar, no dairy and no preservatives, based on cold brew coffee, they knew they had found their niche. The company officially launched in February 2017 with two flavors: nitro cold brew...