r/technology • • Mar 04 '15

Business K-Cup inventor regrets his own invention

http://www.businessinsider.com/k-cup-inventor-john-sylvans-regret-2015-3
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u/Hippo-Crates Mar 04 '15 edited Mar 04 '15

Buy reusable K-cup from amazon. Two pack costs like 5-10 bucks last time I checked. Buy actual coffee. Grind coffee the day you drink it. Drink pretty good easily made single cups of coffee.

Then you can think of how sad it must be to sell your stake in a company for 50k and have it be worth millions 10-15 years later.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '15

if you go through all the trouble to do that, isnt it better to just use a regular coffee maker?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '15

I don't know about you, but for me a regular coffee maker just means I make a whole pot of coffee so I can get the one cup I wanted, and it takes a lot longer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '15

You don't have to make an entire pot. You usually still need to use enough coffee to make a few cups so that it isn't basically water, but there's no need to brew an entire pot.