A Co. That Coffee Enthusiasts (aka everyone) Will Love

1,000 Faces Coffee are sourcers, roasters, and online sellers of our favorite hacking tool... coffee. Based in Athens, this growing ecommerce company sells a killer line up of fresh coffee with a passion for maintaining ethical sourcing standards and growing a community around their product.

Interested in trying out the coffee? Come on down to Hypepotamus and enjoy a brew. They have generously set us up with a coffee donation, a V-60, hand grinder, scales & filters. Everything you need to get addicted!

Here's one of our favorite quotes from their blog. "A key quality in establishing something great is learning how to collaborate and how to throw yourself into the well of the unfamiliar.  We hope that when you drink this coffee, you feel the a similar sense of wonder that it inspires in us."

Your Pitch:
1000 Faces is a coffee roaster, merchant of change, and voyager of the agrarian spirit. We travel to countries of origin and establish relationships with producers to ensure the integrity of our coffee. We have been honored two years running by the Good Food Awards for responsible production and shear quality. The company is located in Athens, Georgia, carrying on the small town's legacy of creating unique products of enlivening substance.

Owners: An artistic, farmers market, sustainable, logistics dream team  
Benjamin Myers (pictured above), Jan Kozak, Jay Payne

Location:
Atlanta has captured our hearts.

Employees:
Seven

Founded:
2006

Funded or bootstrapped:
Bootstrapped

Price of Services:
Free with the purchase of coffee

What Customers Get:  
Coffee that connects people to source

How'd You Get The Idea For It:  
Born out of a love for systems and ecology.  Coffee became the means for implementing Ben Myers interdisciplinary interests of global politics, culinary excellent, artisan pyro-technics, international relations, the preservation of
biodiversity, shamanic sciences, agrarian pragmatics, and the opportunity to build community.

Collaboration Tools & Processes Do You Use:
Information sharing, cross disciplinary engagement, strategic purchasing, pre-competitive planning, and community activism.

Where do you gain your insights from and how do you stay on top of emerging trends?
Insights come from all reaches of the globe from Ethiopia to Norway to Japan to Mexico. I travel to coffee producing countries three times a year to meet with producers of coffee and learn first hand what is present for them.   We also have hired a private detective to spy on other coffee companies, he's not that good though.

What's Unique About Your Company Culture:
We value slowness with a great sense of reverence. Taking the time to do things right with meticulous zen like attention to detail.   We strive to build a cathedral with our body of coffee work, not a drive thru.

What You Need Most Right Now:
We are looking for looking for an extradordinary candidate to work with growing operations in the Atlanta area. Primary functions will include support with sales, service, and training. Interested? Send a resume & cover email to roasterben@gmail.com.

[Photo Credit: Benjamin Myers]