I'm Taissa. I grew up in Rio de Janeiro, where coffee was never really about the coffee. It was the excuse to sit down, to stay longer, to let people get past small talk. When I moved abroad I had no family or friends nearby, and that tradition became the thing I leaned on. I started inviting friends over for coffee and shortbread cookies, and the afternoons ran long enough for people to actually open up. The friends who showed up are my closest ones today. I work in AI, and I build things. I co-founded iCoffee to make consistently good coffee for my friends and family.
