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Founder · Operator · Engineer
Kyle Pool Engineered a Brewery for the Friend Who Never Orders Beer
A civil engineer, a hard-kombucha experiment and an oversized San Diego brewhouse became a lesson in designing for mixed tastes. Kyle Pool’s playbook is simple: let one operation make room for the whole table.
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Founder · Executive · Engineer
Sean Hsu
Sean Hsu is the co-founder and CEO of Botrista, a San Francisco beverage-automation company that builds a countertop machine capable of pouring more than 2,000 craft drink recipes from a four-square-foot footprint. A former Tesla manufacturing engineer, Hsu founded the company in 2017 (originally as Flying Pig Technology) and has since raised roughly $126 million, filed a 27+ patent portfolio, and placed his DrinkBot in restaurants, campuses, hospitals and theme parks. Botrista's Series C in 2025 was led by Jollibee Foods Corporation.
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